Men quotes by Thomas Carlyle

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"No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men."
"It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe."
"A man with a half volition goes backwards and forwards, and makes no way on the smoothest road; a man with a whole volition advances on the roughest, and will reach his purpose, if there be even a little worthiness in it. The man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder - a waif, a nothing, a no man. Have a purpose in life and having it, throw such strength of mind and muscle into your work as God has given you."
"A vein of poetry exists in the hearts of all men."
"The history of the world is but the biography of great men."
"Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity."
"Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can."
"Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die."