Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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Necessity dispenseth with decorum.
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Nine-tenths of the miseries and vices of mankind proceed from idleness.
[Idleness]
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No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor.
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No ghost was every seen by two pair of eyes.
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No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
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No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.
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No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offense
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No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether and irreclaimably depraved.
[Laughter]
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No nobler feeling than this, of admiration for one higher than himself, dwells in the breast of man.-It is to this hour, and at all hours, the vivifying influence in man's life.
[Admiration]
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No person is important enough to make me angry.
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No pressure, no diamonds.
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No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.
[Greatness]
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No violent extreme endures.
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None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.
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Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.
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Not one false man but does unaccountable mischief.
[Influence]
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Not what I have, but what I do is my kingdom.
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Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.
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Nothing ever happens but once in this world. What I do now I do once for all. It is over and gone, with all its eternity of solemn meaning.
[Action]
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Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
[Goals]
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