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• Be not a slave of words.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Advice, Slave

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• No man sees far, most see no farther than their noses.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Vision, Noses

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• Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Uprising, Rebel

  Thomas Carlyle (1872). “Works”, p.140

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• Burke said there were Three Estates in Parliament; but, in the Reporter's gallery yonder, there sat a fourth estate more important far than they all.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Important, Three, Journalism

  On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic "The Hero as Man of Letters" (1841).

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• Terror itself, when once grown transcendental, becomes a kind of courage; as frost sufficiently intense, according to the poet Milton, will burn.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Frost, Kind, Intense

  Thomas Carlyle (1841). “The French Revolution: A History”, p.185

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• One life; a little gleam of Time between two Eternities; no second chance to us for evermore!

  Thomas Carlyle

  Time, Second Chance, Two

  Thomas Carlyle (1860). “Passages selected from the writings of Thomas Carlyle, with a biogr. memoir by T. Ballantyne”, p.207

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• Are we not Spirits, that are shaped into a body, into an Appearance; and that fade away again into air and Invisibility? Oh, Heaven, it is mysterious, it is awful to consider that we not only carry a future Ghost within us; but are, in very deed, Ghosts! These Limbs, whence had we them; this stormy Force; this life-blood with its burning Passion? They are dust and shadow; a Shadow-system gathered round our Me; wherein, through some moments or years, the Divine Essence is to be revealed in the Flesh.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Passion, Years, Essence

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• Lies exist only to be extinguished.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Lying

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• Laws themselves, political Constitutions, are not our Life; but only the house wherein our Life is led.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Law, House, Political

  1838 Critical and Miscellaneous Essays,'History'.

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• Great men are the commissioned guides of mankind, who rule their fellows because they are wiser.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Wise, Wisdom, Men

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• There are remedies for all things but death.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Death, Remedy, All Things

  Thomas Carlyle (1858). “The French Revolution: A History”, p.81

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• The best lesson which we get from the tragedy of Karbala is that Husain and his companions were rigid believers in God. They illustrated that the numerical superiority does not count when it comes to the truth and the falsehood. The victory of Husain, despite his minority, marvels me!

  Thomas Carlyle

  Intellectual, Victory, Tragedy

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• Superstition! that horrid incubus which dwelt in darkness, shunning the light, with all its racks, and poison chalices, and foul sleeping draughts, is passing away without return. Religion cannot pass away. The burning of a little straw may hide the stars of the sky; but the stars are there and will reappear.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Stars, Sleep, Light

  Thomas Carlyle (1876). “The Carlyle Anthology”, p.253

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• The archenemy is the arch stupid!

  Thomas Carlyle

  Stupid, Arches, Conflict

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• Rest is a fine medicine. Let your stomachs rest, ye dyspeptics; let your brain rest, you wearied and worried people of business; let your limbs rest, ye children of toil!

  Thomas Carlyle

  Children, Medicine, People

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• If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of the doubt.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Girl, Sarcastic, Humorous

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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.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Self, Evil, Wickedness

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.142, Lulu.com

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• Only perhaps in the United States, which alone of countries can do without governing,every man being at least able to live, and move off into the wilderness, let Congress jargon as it will,can such a form of so-called Government continue for any length of time to torment men with the semblance, when the indispensable substance is not there.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Country, Moving, Men

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.638, Lulu.com

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• Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Time, Lying, Silence

  'Critical and Miscellaneous Essays' (1838) 'Sir Walter Scott'.

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• The suffering man ought really to consume his own smoke; there is no good in emitting smoke till you have made it into fire.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Fire, Suffering

  Thomas Carlyle (1898). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.184

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• The most unhappy of all men is the man who cannot tell what he is going to do, who has got no work cut-out for him in the world, and does not go into it. For work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind,honest work, which you intend getting done.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Cutting, Men, Unhappy

  Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (2010). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.455, Cambridge University Press

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• A star is beautiful; it affords pleasure, not from what it is to do, or to give, but simply by being what it is. It befits the heavens; it has congruity with the mighty space in which it dwells. It has repose; no force disturbs its eternal peace. It has freedom; no obstruction lies between it and infinity.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Beautiful, Stars, Lying

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• All greatness is unconscious, or it is little and naught.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Greatness, Littles, Unconscious

  Thomas Carlyle (1857). “Critical and miscellaneous essays, collected and republ”, p.146

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• The vulgarity of inanimate things requires time to get accustomed to; but living, breathing, bustling, plotting, planning, human vulgarity is a species of moral ipecacuanha, enough to destroy any comfort.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Breathing, Vulgarity Is, Comfort

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• Great is wisdom; infinite is the value of wisdom. It cannot be exaggerated; it is the highest achievement of man.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Wisdom, Men, Infinite

  John Stuart Mill, Thomas Carlyle (2010). “Autobiography of J.S. Mill & on Liberty; Characteristics, Inaugural Address at Edinburgh & Sir Walter Scott”, p.390, Cosimo, Inc.

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