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18+ Quotes by Thomas Carlyle

A curated collection of 18 inspirational quotes by Thomas Carlyle on life, wisdom, and the human experience.

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"It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics."
— Thomas Carlyle
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"A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope."
Hope
3 "He who has health, has hope and he who has hope, has everything."
Fitness Quotes
4 "He who has health, has hope and he who has hope, has everything."
Healing
5 "He who has health, has hope and he who has hope, has everything."
Wellness
6 "Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world."
Faith
7 "Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding."
Imagination Quotes
8 "Secrecy is the element of all goodness even virtue, even beauty is mysterious."
Beauty Quotes
9 "Secrecy is the element of all goodness even virtue, even beauty is mysterious."
Character
10 "The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully."
Strength
11 "The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done."
Happiness
12 "Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope this world of his is emphatically the place of hope."
Hope
13 "Permanence, perseverance, and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragements, and impossibilities: it is this that distinguishes the strong soul from the weak."
Perseverance
14 "Permanence, perseverance, and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragements, and impossibilities: it is this that distinguishes the strong soul from the weak."
Determination
15 "Permanence, perseverance, and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragements, and impossibilities: it is this that distinguishes the strong soul from the weak."
Power
16 "Permanence, perseverance, and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragements, and impossibilities: it is this that distinguishes the strong soul from the weak."
Fearless
17 "Permanence, perseverance, and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragements, and impossibilities: it is this that distinguishes the strong soul from the weak."
Spirituality
18 "It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five."
Happiness

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