Thomas Carlyle Quotes
No.	Quotation	Subject
1	Faith is loyalty to some inspired Teacher, some spiritual Hero. And what therefore is loyalty proper, the life-breath of all society, but an efficence of Hero-worship, submissive admiration for the truly great? Society is founded on Hero-worship.	Excellence
2	Show our critics a great man, a Luther for example, and they begin what they call 'account' for him; not to worhsip him, but take the dimensions of him and bring him out to be a little kind of man!	Excellence
3	Ill-health, of body or of mind, is defeat...Health alone is victory. Let all men, if they can manage it, contrive to be healthy!	Failure
4	Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope; this world of his is emphatically the place of hope.	Faith
5	Fame, we may understand is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such: it is an accident, not a property of a man.	Fame
6	The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.	Foolish
7	No good book, or good thing of any sort, shows its best face at first.	Kindness
8	For love is ever the beginning of Knowledge, as fire is of light.	Knowledge
9	How much lies in laughter: the cipher key, wherewith we decipher the whole man!	Laughter
10	Humor - Its essence is love; it issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.	Laughter

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