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• Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Lonely, Loneliness, Men

  Thomas Carlyle (1870). “Past and Present”, p.381

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• In private life I never knew anyone interfere with other people's disputes but he heartily repented of it.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Life, People, Disputes

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• He that will not work according to his faculty, let him perish according to his necessity: there is no law juster than that.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Work, Law, Faculty

  Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (2010). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.132, Cambridge University Press

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• Wealth has more and more increased, and at the same time gathered itself more and more into masses, strangely altering the old relations, and increasing the distance between the rich and the poor.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Distance, Wealth, Rich

  1829 Signs of the Times.

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• The infinite, absolute character of Virtue has passed into a finite, conditional one; it is no longer a worship of the Beautiful and Good; but a calculation of the Profitable.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Beautiful, Character, Worship

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.23, Lulu.com

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• In a certain sense all men are historians.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, History, Certain

  Thomas Carlyle (1855). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: By Thomas Carlyle”, p.220

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• Man is emphatically a proselytizing creature.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Nature, Men, Humanity

  Thomas Carlyle (2009). “Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdrockh: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.10, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Not one false man but doth uncountable evil.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Evil

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• No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Sports, Integrity, Athlete

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• In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Running, Witty, Government

  Thomas Carlyle (1843). “Past and Present”, p.149

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• We have profoundly forgotten everywhere that Cash-payment is not the sole relation of human beings.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Money, Cash, Forgotten

  Thomas Carlyle (1848). “Past and Present: Chartism, and Sartor Resartus”, p.146

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• In a symbol there is concealment and yet revelation: here therefore, by Silence and by Speech acting together, comes a double significance.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Silence, Acting, Together

  Thomas Carlyle, G. B. Tennyson (1984). “Carlyle Reader”, p.276, CUP Archive

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• History, as it lies at the root of all science, is also the first distinct product of man's spiritual nature, his earliest expression of what may be called thought.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Spiritual, Lying, Science

  Thomas Carlyle, G. B. Tennyson (1984). “Carlyle Reader”, p.55, CUP Archive

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• The public is anold woman.Let her maunderand mumble.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Old Woman

  Thomas Carlyle, Brendan King (1993). “The Sayings of Thomas Carlyle”, p.60, Lulu.com

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• Little other than a red tape Talking-machine, and unhappy Bag of Parliamentary Eloquence.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Talking, Unhappy, Tape

  Describing himself, in 'Latter-Day Pamphlets' (1850) 'The Present Time'

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• How great a Possibility, how small a realized Result.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Possibility, Results

  1834 Of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Letter to Emerson, 12 Aug.

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• The dust of controversy is merely the falsehood flying off.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Dust, Flying, Controversy

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• No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Inspirational, Positive, Happiness

  1833-4 Sartor Resartus, bk.1, ch.4.

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• Armed Soldier, terrible as Death, relentless as Doom; doing God's judgement on the Enemies of God. It is a phenomenon not of joyful nature; no, but of awful, to be looked at with pious terror and awe.

  Thomas Carlyle

  History, Judgement, Soldier

  Thomas Carlyle (1871). “Works”, p.144

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• Society is founded upon Cloth.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Thomas Carlyle (1831). “Sartor Resartus: The life and opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh in three books: By Thomas Carlyle”, p.34

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• Pain was not given thee merely to be miserable under; learn from it, turn it to account.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Pain, Miserable, Given

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• Well might the ancients make silence a god; for it is the element of all godhood, infinitude, or transcendental greatness,--at once the source and the ocean wherein all such begins and ends.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Ocean, Greatness, Silence

  Thomas Carlyle (1872). “Works”, p.15

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• Democracy will itself accomplish the salutary universal change from delusive to real, and make a new blessed world of us by and by.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Real, Blessed, Democracy

  Thomas Carlyle (1870). “Latter-day Pamphlets”, p.18, London : Chapman and Hall

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• O Time! Time! how it brings forth and devours! And the roaring flood of existence rushes on forever similar, forever changing!

  Thomas Carlyle

  Time, Forever, Roaring

  Thomas Carlyle, Charles Richard Sanders, Jane Welsh Carlyle (1973). “The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle: October 1833-december 1834”, Duke University Press Books

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• Prayer is and remains always a native and deepest impulse of the soul of man.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Prayer, Men, Soul

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