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• To each is given a certain inward talent, a certain outward environment or fortune; to each by wisest combination of these two, a certain maximum capacity.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Two, Inward, Talent

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• To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes.

  Thomas Carlyle

  God, Stars, Eye

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.97, Lulu.com

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• The condition of the most passionate enthusiast is to be preferred over the individual who, because of the fear of making a mistake, won't in the end affirm or deny anything

  Thomas Carlyle

  Fear, Mistake, Passionate

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• There is endless merit in a man's knowing when to have done.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Knowing, Done

  Thomas Carlyle (1857). “Critical and miscellaneous essays, collected and republ”, p.259

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• I don't like to talk much with people who always agree with me. It is amusing to coquette with an echo for a little while, but one soon tires of it.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Fake People, Echoes, Coquette

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• The deepest depth of vulgarism is that of setting up money as the ark of the covenant.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Ark, Depth, Covenant

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• All evil is like a nightmare; the instant you stir under it, the evil is gone.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Night, Evil, Gone

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• A frightful dialect for the stupid, the pedant and dullard sort.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Stupid, Dialect, Pedants

  Thomas Carlyle (1872). “History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great”, p.276

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• No country can find eternal peace and comfort where the vote of Judas Iscariot is as good as the vote of the Saviour of mankind.

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  Country, Comfort, Vote

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• The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Time, Yesterday, Forever

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• When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Intelligent, Behavior, Individual

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• This London City, with all of its houses, palaces, steam-engines, cathedrals, and huge immeasurable traffic an tumult, what is it but a Thought, but millions of Thoughts made into One-a huge immeasurable Spirit of a Thought, embodied in brick, in iron, smoke, dust, Palaces, Parliaments, Hackney Coaches, Katherine Docks, and the rest of it! Not a brick was made but some man had to think of the making of that brick.

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  Men, Thinking, Iron

  Thomas Carlyle (1840). “On Heroes, Hero-worship and the Heroic in History”, p.195, CUP Archive

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• A dandy is a clothes-wearing man--a man whose trade, office, and existence consist in the wearing of clothes. Every faculty of his soul, spirit, person and purse is heroically consecrated to this one object--the wearing of clothes, wisely and well; so that, as others dress to live, he lives to dress.

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  Men, Clothes, Office

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

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• A thought once awakened does not again slumber.

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  Doe, Slumber, Awakened

  Thomas Carlyle (1841). “On Heroes, Hero-Worship,&the Heroic in History. Six Lectures. Reported with emendations and additions”, p.34

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• Man, it is not thy works, which are mortal, infinitely little, and the greatest no greater than the least, but only the spirit thou workest in, that can have worth or continuance.

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  Men, Littles, Spirit

  Thomas Carlyle (1872). “The French Revolution: a History”, p.18

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• Let a man try faithfully, manfully to be right; he will grow daily more and more right. It is at bottom the condition on which all men have to cultivate themselves.

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  Men, Trying, Grows

  "New letters of Thomas Carlyle".

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• These Arabs, the man Mahomet, and that one century, - is it not as if a spark had fallen, one spark, on a world of what proves explosive powder, blazes heaven-high from Delhi to Granada! I said, the Great man was always as lightning out of Heaven; the rest of men waited for him like fuel, and then they too would flame.

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  Islamic, Men, Flames

  Thomas Carlyle (1864). “Sartor Resartus”, p.242

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• This is the eternal law of Nature for a man, my beneficent Exeter-Hall friends; this, that he shall be permitted, encouraged, and if need be, compelled to do what work the Maker of him has intended by the making of him for this world! Not that he should eat pumpkin with never such felicity in the West India Islands is, or can be, the blessedness of our Black friend; but that he should do useful work there, according as the gifts have been bestowed on him for that.

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  Men, Purpose, Makers

  "Occasional Discourse on the Nigger Question". Reprinted, with additions, from Fraser's Magazine,

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• If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

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  Kind, Speak, Truth Is

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• It is a strange trade that of advocacy. Your intellect, your highest heavenly gift is hung up in the shop window like a loaded pistol for sale.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Pistols, Strange, Influence

  Thomas Carlyle, James Anthony Froude (2012). “Reminiscences”, p.13, Cambridge University Press

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• Look to be treated by others as you have treated others.

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  Inspirational, Hate, Nursing

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• Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct.

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  Belief, Excellent, Conviction

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• Give us, O give us the man who sings at his work! Be his occupation what it may, he is equal to any of those who follow the same pursuit in silent sullenness. He will do more in the same time . . . he will do it better . . . he will persevere longer. One is scarcely sensible to fatigue while he marches to music. The very stars are said to make harmony as they revolve in their spheres.

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  Time, Stars, Work

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• We do everything by custom, even believe by it; our very axioms, let us boast of free-thinking as we may, are oftenest simply such beliefs as we have never heard questioned.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Believe, Thinking, May

  Thomas Carlyle (1864). “Sartor Resartus”, p.158

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• Teaching school is but another word for sure and not very slow destruction.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Teaching, School, Math

  Thomas Carlyle (1886). “Early Letters”, p.281, Georg Olms Verlag

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