Quote by Thomas Carlyle
The actual well seen is ideal. - Thomas Carlyle

The actual well seen is ideal. – Thomas Carlyle

Other quotes by Thomas Carlyle

Not on morality, but on cookery, let us build our stronghold: there brandishing our frying-pan, as censer, let us offer sweet incense to the Devil, and live at ease on the fat things he has provided for his elect! – Thomas Carlyle

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A person with half volition goes backwards and forwards, but makes no progress on even the smoothest of roads. – Thomas Carlyle

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Commitment
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Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against. – Thomas Carlyle

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Men
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Dont use that foreign word ideals. We have that excellent native word lies. – Henrik Ibsen

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Words without actions are the assassins of idealism. – Herbert Hoover

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Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality the cost becomes prohibitive. – William F. Buckley

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Ideals are the worlds masters. – Josiah Gilbert Holland

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