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• The beginning of all wisdom is to look fixedly on clothes, or even with armed eyesight, till they become transparent.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Clothes, Looks, Hmmm

  Thomas Carlyle (1869). “Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh : in Three Books”, p.65

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• I call that [Book of Job], apart from all theories about it, one of the grandest things ever written with pen.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Bible, Jobs, Book

  "On Heroes, Hero-worship and the Heroic in History".

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• God gave you that gifted tongue of yours, and set it between your teeth, to make known your true meaning to us, not to be rattled like a muffin man's bell.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Teeth, Bells

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• There is no heroic poem in the world but is at bottom a biography, the life of a man.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Poetry, World

  Critical and Miscellaneous Essays "Sir Walter Scott" (1838)

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• No man is born without ambitious worldly desires.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Ambition, Men, Desire

  Thomas Carlyle (1864). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays ...”, p.236

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• There is a majesty and mystery in nature, take her as you will. The essence of poetry comes breathing to a mind that feels from every province of her empire.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Nature, Essence, Breathing

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

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• A good book is the purest essence of a human soul.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Book, Essence, Soul

  Speech in support of the London Library, 24 June 1840, in F. Harrison 'Carlyle and the London Library' (1907) p. 66

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• For the superior morality, of which we hear so much, we too would desire to be thankful: at the same time, it were but blindness to deny that this superior morality is properly rather an inferior criminality, produced not by greater love of Virtue, but by greater perfection of Police; and of that far subtler and stronger Police, called Public Opinion.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Love, Perfection, Being Thankful

  Thomas Carlyle, G. B. Tennyson (1984). “Carlyle Reader”, p.50, CUP Archive

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• Histories are a kind of distilled newspapers.

  Thomas Carlyle

  History, Kind, Newspapers

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• Silence, the great Empire of Silence: higher than all stars; deeper than the Kingdom of Death! It alone is great; all else is small.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Stars, Silence, Kingdoms

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• Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together; that at length they may emerge, full-formed and majestic, into the daylight of Life, which they are thenceforth to rule.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Fashion, Silence, Together

  "Sartor Resartus" by Thomas Carlyle, Book III, (Ch. 3), 1833-1834.

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• Literature is the thought of thinking souls.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Thinking, Soul, Literature

  John Stuart Mill, Thomas Carlyle (2010). “Autobiography of J.S. Mill & on Liberty; Characteristics, Inaugural Address at Edinburgh & Sir Walter Scott”, p.464, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Speech is great, but silence is greater.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Silence, Speech, Silence Is

  Thomas Carlyle (1841). “On Heroes, Hero-Worship,&the Heroic in History. Six Lectures. Reported with emendations and additions”, p.175

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• The actual well seen is ideal.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Idealism, Wells, Ideals

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• The whole past is the procession of the present.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Past, History, Whole

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• What is nature? Art thou not the living government of God? O Heaven, is it in very deed He then that ever speaks through thee, that lives and loves in thee, that lives and loves in me?

  Thomas Carlyle

  Art, Life And Love, Government

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• He who would write heroic poems should make his whole life a heroic poem.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Life, Writing, Heroic

  Thomas Carlyle (1857). “Life of Friedrich Schiller (1825): Life of John Sterling (1851)”, p.37

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• There is but one thing without honor, smitten with eternal barrenness, inability to do or to be,-insincerity, unbelief.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Infidelity, Honor, Inability

  Thomas Carlyle (1884). “Miscellaneous essays”

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• I never heard tell of any clever man that came of entirely stupid people.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Clever, Stupid, Men

  Thomas Carlyle (1872). “Works”, p.181

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• A mind that has seen, and suffered, and done, speaks to us of what it has tried and conquered.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Mind, Done, Speak

  1824 Goethe, vol.4,'Introduction to German Romance'.

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• Show me the man you honor; I know by that symptom, better than by any other, what kind of man you yourself are. For you show me there what your ideal of manhood is; what kind of man you long inexpressibly to be.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Long, Honor

  Thomas Carlyle (1897). “History of Friedrich the Second: Called Frederick the Great”

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• We are to remember what an umpire Nature is; what a greatness, composure of depth and tolerance there is in her. You take wheat to cast into the Earth's bosom; your wheat may be mixed with chaff, chopped straw, barn-sweepings, dust and all imaginable rubbish; no matter: you cast it into the kind just Earth; she grows the wheat, - the whole rubbish she silently absorbs, shrouds it in, says nothing of the rubbish.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Greatness, Umpires, Dust

  Thomas Carlyle (1840). “On Heroes, Hero-worship and the Heroic in History”, p.73, CUP Archive

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• I know so little about any history. How little do I know even about the history of myself.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Littles, Knows

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• I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.

  Thomas Carlyle

  God, Reality, Devil

  Letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson, April 29, 1836

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• For, strictly considered, what is all Knowledge too but recorded Experience, and a product of History; of which, therefore, Reasoning and Belief, no less than Action and Passion, are essential materials?

  Thomas Carlyle

  History, Products

  "The Works of Thomas Carlyle".

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