Thomas Carlyle Quotes - Page 15

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• My books are friends that never fail me.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Book, Failing

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• It is a fact which escapes no one, that, generally speaking, whoso is acquainted with his worth has but a little stock to cultivate acquaintance with.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Littles, Facts, Conceit

  Thomas Carlyle (1872). “Works”, p.7

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• Of all the things which man can do or make here below, by far the most momentous, wonderful, and worthy are the things we call books.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Book, Men, Wonderful

  Thomas Carlyle (1846). “On Heroes, Hero-worship, & the Heroic in History: Six Lectures ; Reported, with Emendations and Additions”, p.147

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• The great silent man! Looking round on the noisy inanity of the world,--words with little meaning, actions with little worth,--one loves to reflect on the great Empire of Silence.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Silence, World

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.246, Lulu.com

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• A true delineation of the smallest man is capable of interesting the greatest man.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Interesting, Smallest

  Thomas Carlyle (1851). “Works”, p.6

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• We have our little theory on all human and divine things. Poetry, the workings of genius itself, which, in all times, with one or another meaning, has been called Inspiration, and held to be mysterious and inscrutable, is no longer without its scientific exposition. The building of the lofty rhyme is like any other masonry or bricklaying: we have theories of its rise, height, decline and fall -- which latter, it would seem, is now near, among all people.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Fall, Inspiration, People

  Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (2010). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.76, Cambridge University Press

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• Oblivion is the dark page, whereon Memory writes her light-beam characters, and makes them legible; were it all light, nothing could be read there, any more than if it were all darkness.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Memories, Writing, Character

  Thomas Carlyle, Chris Vanden Bossche (2002). “Historical Essays”, p.20, Univ of California Press

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• When we can drain the Ocean into mill-ponds, and bottle up the Force of Gravity, to be sold by retail, in gas jars; then may we hope to comprehend the infinitudes of man's soul under formulas of Profit and Loss; and rule over this too, as over a patent engine, by checks, and valves, and balances.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Ocean, Loss, Technology

  Thomas Carlyle, G. B. Tennyson (1984). “Carlyle Reader”, p.44, CUP Archive

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• Not what I have, but what I do is my kingdom.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Growth, Charity, Kingdoms

  Thomas Carlyle (1894). “The Carlyle reader, selections ed. by J. Wood”

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• Universal history, the history of what man has accomplished in this world, is at bottom the History of the Great Men who have worked here.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, History, World

  Thomas Carlyle (1840). “On Heroes, Hero-worship and the Heroic in History”, p.3, CUP Archive

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• All reform except a moral one will prove unavailing.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Change, Reform, Moral

  1872 Critical and Miscellaneous Essays,'Corn Law Rhymes'.

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• True friends, like ivy and the wall Both stand together, and together fall.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Loyalty, Wall, True Friend

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• Speech that leads not to action, still more that hinders it, is a nuisance on the earth.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Nuisance, Earth, Speech

  Thomas Carlyle, Jane Welsh Carlyle (1909). “The Love Letters of Thomas Carlyle and Jane Welsh”

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• A word spoken in season, at the right moment; is the mother of ages.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Mother, Opportunity, Age

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• At worst, is not this an unjust world, full of nothing but beasts of prey, four-footed or two-footed?

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  Two, World, Four

  Thomas Carlyle, Chris Vanden Bossche (2002). “Historical Essays”, p.68, Univ of California Press

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• The world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Mediocrity, World, Republic

  Thomas Carlyle, Brendan King (1993). “The Sayings of Thomas Carlyle”, p.57, Lulu.com

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• The choking, sweltering, deadly, and killing rule of no rule; the consecration of cupidity and braying of folly, and dim stupidity and baseness, in most of the affairs of men. Slopshirts attainable three-halfpence cheaper by the ruin of living bodies and immortal souls.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Stupidity, Soul

  Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (2010). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.29, Cambridge University Press

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• It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Hope, People, Politics

  Thomas Carlyle, Brendan King (1993). “The Sayings of Thomas Carlyle”, p.36, Lulu.com

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• Battles, in these ages, are transacted by mechanism; with the slightest possible development of human individuality or spontaneity; men now even die, and kill one another, in an artificial manner.

  Thomas Carlyle

  War, Men, Technology

  Thomas Carlyle, G. B. Tennyson (1984). “Carlyle Reader”, p.356, CUP Archive

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• The Orator persuades and carries all with him, he knows not how; the Rhetorician can prove that he ought to have persuaded and carried all with him.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Oratory, Prove, Orators

  Thomas Carlyle (1881). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: Collected and Republished”, p.5

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• No violent extreme endures.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Violence, Violent, Endure

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• Nakedness, hunger, distress of all kinds, death itself have been cheerfully suffered, when the heart was right. It is the feeling of injustice that is insupportable to all men.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Heart, Men, Feelings

  Chartism ch. 5 (1839)

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• Painful for a person is rebellious independence, only in loving companionship with his associates does a person feel safe: Only in reverently bowing down before the higher does a person feel exalted.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Humility, Independence, Doe

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• The eye sees what it brings the power to see.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Knowledge, Eye, Power

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• The press is the fourth estate of the realm.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Journalism, Estates, Realms

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