Thomas Carlyle Quotes - Page 18

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• Over the times thou hast no power. . . . Solely over one man thou hast quite absolute power. Him redeem and make honest.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Honesty, Power, Men

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• Wealth of a man is the number of things which he loves and blesses which he is loved and blessed by.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Blessed, Men, Numbers

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.455, Lulu.com

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• Rich as we are in biography, a well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one; and there are certainly many more men whose history deserves to be recorded than persons willing and able to record it.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Records, Biographies

  Thomas Carlyle (1864). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays ...”, p.7

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• Books are a triviality. Life alone is great.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Life, Book, Triviality

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• Man's Unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his Greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, with which all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite... Try him with half of a Universe, of an Omnipotence, he sets to quarreling with the proprietor of the other half, and declares himself the most maltreated of men. Always there is a black spot in our sunshine: It is even, as I said, the Shadow of Ourselves.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Sunshine, Greatness, Men

  "Selections from Carlyle".

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• Laissez-faire, supply and demand-one begins to be weary of all that. Leave all to egotism, to ravenous greed of money, of pleasure, of applause-it is the gospel of despair.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Greed, Despair, Demand

  Thomas Carlyle (1858). “Chartism: Past and Present. By Thomas Carlyle”, p.214

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• Philosophy dwells aloft in the Temple of Science, the divinity of its inmost shrine; her dictates descend among men, but she herself descends not : whoso would behold her must climb with long and laborious effort, nay, still linger in the forecourt, till manifold trial have proved him worthy of admission into the interior solemnities.

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  Philosophy, Philosophical, Science

  Thomas Carlyle (1864). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays ...”, p.32

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• Pin your faith to no ones sleeves, haven't you two eyes of your own.

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  Eye, Two, Independence

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• Infinite is the help man can yield to man.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Yield, Brotherhood

  Thomas Carlyle (1840). “Sartor Reartus: The Life and Opinions of Her Teufelsdrockh : in Three Books”, p.301

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• Parliament will train you to talk; and above all things to hear, with patience, unlimited quantities of foolish talk.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Patience, Foolish, Parliament

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.619, Lulu.com

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• In the true Literary Man there is thus ever, acknowledged or not by the world, a sacredness: he is the light of the world; the world's Priest; -- guiding it, like a sacred Pillar of Fire, in its dark pilgrimage through the waste of Time.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Dark, Men, Fire

  Thomas Carlyle (1871). “The Collected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.302

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• The Great Man's sincerity is of the kind he cannot speak of, is not conscious of: nay, I suppose, he is conscious rather of insincerity; for what man can walk accurately by the law of truth for one day? No, the Great Man does not boast himself sincere, far from that; perhaps does not ask himself if he is so: I would say rather, his sincerity does not depend on himself; he cannot help being sincere!

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Law, One Day

  Thomas Carlyle (1871). “The Collected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.218

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• We have not the love of greatness, but the love of the love of greatness.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Greatness

  Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (2010). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.23, Cambridge University Press

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• Whoso has sixpence is sovereign (to the length of sixpence) over all men; commands cooks to feed him, philosophers to teach him, kings to mount guard over him,to the length of sixpence.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Kings, Men, Sovereign

  'Sartor Resartus' (1834) bk. 1, ch. 5

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• Love not Pleasure; love God.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Pleasure Love, God Love, Pleasure

  Thomas Carlyle, G. B. Tennyson (1984). “Carlyle Reader”, p.26, CUP Archive

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• Such is the world. Understand it, despise it, love it; cheerfully hold on thy way through it, with thy eye on highest loadstars!

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  Eye, World, Way

  Thomas Carlyle (1848). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays”, p.78

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• Is not cant the materia prima of the devil, from which all falsehoods, imbecilities, abominations, body themselves, from which no true thing can come? For cant is itself the properly a double-distilled lie, the second power of a lie.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Lying, Devil, Body

  Thomas Carlyle (1872). “The French Revolution: a History”, p.48

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• Happy season of childhood! Kind Nature, that art to all a bountiful mother; that visitest the poor man's hut With auroral radiance; and for thy nursling hast provided a soft swathing of love and infinite hope wherein he waxes and slumbers, danced round by sweetest dreams!

  Thomas Carlyle

  Mother, Dream, Art

  Thomas Carlyle (2016). “Sartor Resartus: The Historian”, p.66, 北戴河出版

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• Custom doth make dotards of us all.

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  Customs

  Thomas Carlyle (1869). “Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh : in Three Books”, p.250

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• Habit and imitation--there is nothing more perennial in us than these two. They are the source of all working, and all apprenticeship, of all practice, and all learning, in this world.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Practice, Two, World

  Thomas Carlyle (1862). “Past and Present: Chartism, and Sartor Resartus”, p.126

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• The Persians are called the French of the East; we will call the Arabs Oriental Italians. A gifted noble people; a people of wildstrong feelings, and of iron restraint over these: the characteristic of noblemindedness, of genius.

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  Iron, People, Feelings

  Thomas Carlyle (2016). “Heroes and Hero Worship: The Historian”, p.43, 北戴河出版

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• Fancy that thou deservest to be hangedthou wilt feel it happiness to be only shot: fancy that thou deservest to be hanged ina hair halter, it will be a luxury to die in hemp.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Luxury, Hair, Guilt

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• Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Depth, Narrative, Height

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• Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Time, Youth, Glad

  Thomas Carlyle (1825). “Carlyle's Works ...”

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• The grand result of schooling is a mind with just vision to discern, with free force to do: the grand schoolmaster is Practice.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Education, Practice, Mind

  Thomas Carlyle (1872). “Works”, p.190

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