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• The greatest security against sin is to be shocked at its presence.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Inspiration, Sin, Shocked

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• All that a university or final highest school. can do for us is still but what the first school began doing--teach us to read. We learn to read in various languages, in various sciences; we learn the alphabet and letters of all manner of books. But the place where we are to get knowledge, even theoretic knowledge, is the books themselves. It depends on what we read, after all manner of professors have done their best for us. The true university of these days is a collection of books.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Education, Book, School

  Thomas Carlyle (1852). “On Heroes, Hero-worship, and the Heroic in History: Six Lectures, Reported, with Emendations and Additions”, p.255

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• Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man

  Thomas Carlyle

  Laughter, Men, Keys

  Thomas Carlyle (1833). “Fraser's Magazine”, p.592

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• Considering the multitude of mortals that handle the pen in these days, and can mostly spell, and write without glaring violations of grammar, the question naturally arises: How is it, then, that no work proceeds from them, bearing any stamp of authenticity and permanence; of worth for more than one day?

  Thomas Carlyle

  Writing, One Day, Authenticity

  Thomas Carlyle (1872). “Works”, p.63

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• Parties on the back of Parties, at war with the world and with each other.

  Thomas Carlyle

  War, Party, History

  Thomas Carlyle (2002). “The Life of Oliver Cromwell: With a Selection from His Letters and Speeches”, p.166, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• The deadliest sin were the consciousness of no sin

  Thomas Carlyle

  Consciousness, Sin

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• Man is, and was always, a block-head and dullard; much readier to feel and digest, than to think and consider.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Block, Men, Thinking

  Thomas Carlyle, G. B. Tennyson (1984). “Carlyle Reader”, p.163, CUP Archive

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• The Present is the living sum-total of the whole Past.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Past, History, Whole

  Thomas Carlyle, G. B. Tennyson (1984). “Carlyle Reader”, p.99, CUP Archive

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• The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Funny, Humor, Blue

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• Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.

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  Kings, World, Persuasion

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• The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

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  Inspirational, Courage, Men

  Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (2010). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.123, Cambridge University Press

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• What is philosophy but a continual battle against custom?

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  Philosophy, Battle, Customs

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• Debt is a bottomless sea.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Sea, Debt, Borrowing

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• A man cannot make a pair of shoes rightly unless he do it in a devout manner.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Work

  Thomas Carlyle, Brendan King (1993). “The Sayings of Thomas Carlyle”, p.53, Lulu.com

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• History is the essence of innumerable biographies.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Essence, History, Legacy

  Critical and Miscellaneous Essays "On History" (1838) See Thomas Carlyle 12

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• The fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Fear, Doubt, Unbelief

  Thomas Carlyle (1831). “Sartor Resartus: The life and opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh in three books: By Thomas Carlyle”, p.114

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• O poor mortals, how ye make this earth bitter for each other.

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  Earth, Bitter, Poor

  Thomas Carlyle (1838). “The French Revolution: A History”, p.177

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• The universe is but one vast Symbol of God.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Diversity, Soul, Symbols

  Thomas Carlyle (1831). “Sartor Resartus: The life and opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh in three books: By Thomas Carlyle”, p.152

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• The all importance of clothes has sprung up in the intellect of the dandy without effort, like an instinct of genius; he is inspired with clothes, a poet of clothes.

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  Sprung Up, Clothes, Effort

  Thomas Carlyle (1871). “The Collected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.166

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• Worship is transcendent wonder.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Worship, Wonder, Transcendent

  'On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic' (1841) 'The Hero as Divinity'

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• The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.

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  Gun, Civilization, Religion

  Critical and Miscellaneous Essays "The State of German Literature" (1838)

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• Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.

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  Summer, Nature, Spring

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.73, Lulu.com

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• The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity.

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  Heart, Men, Vanity

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• That there should one man die ignorant who had capacity for knowledge, this I call a tragedy.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Ignorance, Knowledge, Men

  Thomas Carlyle (1864). “Sartor Resartus”, p.140

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• The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious.

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  Jesus, Greatness, Differences

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