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A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.
Thomas Carlyle

Love, Knowledge, Heart

He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.
Thomas Carlyle

Fitness, Health, Hope

Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacle s, discouragement s, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.
Thomas Carlyle

Strong, Soul, Weak

Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.
Thomas Carlyle

Nothing, Builds

A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.
Thomas Carlyle

Hope, Strong, Mind

A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy.
Thomas Carlyle

Kindness, Heart, True

No pressure, no diamonds.
Thomas Carlyle

Pressure, Diamonds

If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.
Thomas Carlyle

Music, Nature, Heart

Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.
Thomas Carlyle

Adversity, Heaven, Diamond

Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It's a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment.
Thomas Carlyle

Nothing, Achieve, Simply

I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
Thomas Carlyle

Great, Die, Ambition

Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
Thomas Carlyle

Music, Said, Speech

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
Thomas Carlyle

Business, Work, Blessed

Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation.
Thomas Carlyle

Work, Hard, Person

Every noble work is at first impossible.
Thomas Carlyle

Work, Impossible, Noble

Endurance is patience concentrated.
Thomas Carlyle

Patience, Endurance

A man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind.
Thomas Carlyle

Mind, Blessing, Fortune

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.
Thomas Carlyle

Teacher, Greatest, After

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.
Thomas Carlyle

Life, Men, Death

A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.
Thomas Carlyle

Lives, Believing, Arguing

Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will.
Thomas Carlyle

Life, Music, Through

Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere.
Thomas Carlyle

Person, Wait, Off

Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.
Thomas Carlyle

Greatest, Divine, Conscious

There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.
Thomas Carlyle

Good, Bad, Often

A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun.
Thomas Carlyle

Work, Find, Sun

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Biography

Nationality: Scottish

Type: Philosopher

Born: December 4, 1795

Died: February 5, 1881

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