Best Quotes by Thomas Carlyle (Top 10)

  1. What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
  2. I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
  3. If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it.
  4. All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.
  5. Go as far as you can see; when you get there you'll be able to see farther.
  6. A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.
  7. Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.
  8. Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
  9. Endurance is patience concentrated.
  10. Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.

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