Thomas Carlyle Quotes on Morality
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A healthy hatred of scoundrels.
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No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.
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Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the Devil; for which reason I have, long since, as good as renounced it.
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No Dilettantism in this Mahomet; it is a business of Reprobation and Salvation with him, of Time and Eternity: he is in deadly earnest about it! Dilettantism, hypothesis, speculation, a kind of amateur-search for Truth, toying and coquetting with Truth: this is the sorest sin. The root of all other imaginable sins. It consists in the heart and soul of the man never having been open to Truth; - 'living in a vain show.' Such a man not only utters and produces falsehoods, but is himself a falsehood. The rational moral principle, spark of the Divinity, is sunk deep in him, in quiet paralysis of life-death.
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Enjoying things which are pleasant; that is not the evil: it is the reducing of our moral self to slavery by them that is.
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We will not praise Mahomet's moral precepts as always of the superfinest sort; yet it can be said that there is always a tendency to good in them; that they are the true dictates of a heart aiming towards what is just and true