Thomas Carlyle

Puzzles

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Quotes

• Which one of these four quotes is attributed to Thomas Carlyle?

  • → Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.
  • → In order to exist just once in the world, it is necessary never again to exist.
  • → Whoever today speaks of human existence in terms of power, efficiency, and historical tasks is an actual or potential assassin.
  • → I don't want to be a genius - I have enough problems just trying to be a man.
  
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• Pick the quote attributed to Thomas Carlyle.

  • → Facing it — always facing it — that's the way to get through. Face it.
  • → The eternal stars shine out as soon as it is dark enough.
  • → Nature uses human imagination to lift her work of creation to even higher levels.
  • → Bravery is being the only one who knows you're afraid.
  
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• Select the quotation attributed to Thomas Carlyle.

  • → 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.
  • → I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying.
  • → Shallow men believe in luck and circumstances. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
  • → A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road.
  
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• One of these may be attributed to Thomas Carlyle. Which one?

  • → The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
  • → Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.
  • → Grow into your ideals so that life cannot rob you of them.
  • → We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.
  
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• Which one of these belongs to Thomas Carlyle?

  • → Literature is news that stays news.
  • → Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail.
  • → Not what I have, but what I do is my kingdom.
  • → Dollars have never been known to produced character, and character will never be produced by money.
  
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• Can you identify the right quote belonging to Thomas Carlyle?

  • → Every sin is the result of collaboration.
  • → When there is an original sound in the world, it makes a hundred echoes.
  • → Some people strengthen the society just by being the kind of people they are.
  • → The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.
  
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• Guess which of these quotes is attributed to Thomas Carlyle.

  • → A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.
  • → If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.
  • → A horse without the lancer is still a horse; a lancer without the horse is just a man.
  • → Society is founded upon cloth.
  
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