Quote by Thomas Carlyle
All great peoples are conservative. - Thomas Carlyle

All great peoples are conservative. – Thomas Carlyle

Other quotes by Thomas Carlyle

A person usually has two reasons for doing something: a good reason and the real reason. – Thomas Carlyle

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Reason
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When we can drain the Ocean into mill-ponds, and bottle up the Force of Gravity, to be sold by retail, in gas jars; then may we hope to comprehend the infinitudes of mans soul under formulas of Profit and Loss; and rule over this too, as over a patent engine, by checks, and valves, and balances. – Thomas Carlyle

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Technology
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Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance – the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen. – Thomas Carlyle

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power
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Put the uncommon effort into the common task… make it large by doing it in a great way. – Orison Swett Marden

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With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy. – Arthur Schopenhauer

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Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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There are many qualities that make a great leader. But having strong beliefs, being able to stick with them through popular and unpopular times, is the most important characteristic of a great leader. – Rudy Giuliani

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