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• I think Scandinavian Paganism, to us here, is more interesting than any other. It is, for one thing, the latest; it continued in these regions of Europe till the eleventh century; 800 years ago the Norwegians were still worshipers of Odin. It is interesting also as the creed of our fathers; the men whose blood still runs in our veins, whom doubtless we still resemble in so many ways.

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  Running, Father, Men

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• Great men are the inspired texts of that divine Book of Revelations, whereof a chapter is completed from epoch to epoch, and by some named History.

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  Book, Men, History

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

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• Happy season of virtuous youth, when shame is still an impassable barrier, and the sacred air-cities of hope have not shrunk into the mean clay hamlets of reality; and man, by his nature, is yet infinite and free.

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  Mean, Reality, Men

  Thomas Carlyle (1869). “Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh : in Three Books”, p.131

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• A noble book! all men's book!

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  Bible, Book, Men

  Thomas Carlyle (2010). “On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History”, p.67, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Piety does not mean that a man should make a sour face about things, and refuse to enjoy in moderation what his Maker has given.

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  Mean, Men, Doe

  Thomas Carlyle (1866). “On the Choice of Books. The inaugural address of Thomas Carlyle, Lord Rector of the University of Edinburgh. Reprinted from “the Times,” with additional articles, a memoir of the author, etc”, p.30

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• Caution is the lower story of prudence.

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  Stories, Caution, Prudence

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• Alas! we know that ideals can never be completely embodied in practice. Ideals must ever lie a great way off--and we will thankfully content ourselves with any not intolerable approximation thereto! Let no man, as Schiller says, too querulously "measure by a scale of perfection the meager product of reality" in this poor world of ours.

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  Lying, Reality, Men

  Thomas Carlyle (1840). “On Heroes, Hero-worship and the Heroic in History”, p.234, CUP Archive

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• Great men are the modelers, patterns, and in a wide sense creators, of whatsoever the general mass of men contrived to do and attain.

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  Inspirational, Men, Patterns

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.91, Lulu.com

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• Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, altogether past calculation its powers of endurance.

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  Past, Endurance, Cheerfulness

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• Music... a kind of inarticulate, unfathomable speech, which leads to the edge of the Infinite.

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  Inspiration, Speech, Kind

  Thomas Carlyle (1840). “Works”, p.78

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• The mathematics of high achievement

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  Achievement, Mathematics

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• What the light of your mind, which is the direct inspiration of the Almighty, pronounces incredible, that, in God's name, leave uncredited. At your peril do not try believing that!

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  Believe, Inspiration, Light

  Thomas Carlyle (1857). “Life of Friedrich Schiller (1825): Life of John Sterling (1851)”, p.236

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• We arc the miracle of miracles, the great inscrutable mystery of God.

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  Miracle, Mystery, Arcs

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• Reality, if rightly interpreted, is grander than fiction.

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  Reality, Fiction, Ifs

  Thomas Carlyle, A.H.R. Ball (2014). “The French Revolution”, p.13, Cambridge University Press

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• It is the feeling of injustice that is insupportable to all men.

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  Men, Justice, Feelings

  Chartism ch. 5 (1839)

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• He who takes not counsel of the Unseen and Silent, from him will never come real visibility and speech.

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  Real, Unseen, Speech

  Thomas Carlyle (1840). “Works”

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• The aristocracy of feudal parchment has passed away with a mighty rushing, and now, by a natural course, we arrive at aristocracy of the money-bag.

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  Class, Rushing, Aristocracy

  Thomas Carlyle (1839). “The French Revolution: A History”, p.390

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• The sincere alone can recognize sincerity.

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  Sincerity, Sincere

  Thomas Carlyle (2016). “Heroes and Hero Worship: The Historian”, p.193, 北戴河出版

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• Poverty, we may say, surrounds a man with ready-made barriers, which if they do mournfully gall and hamper, do at least prescribe for him, and force on him, a sort of course and goal; a safe and beaten, though a circuitous, course. A great part of his guidance is secure against fatal error, is withdrawn from his control. The rich, again, has his whole life to guide, without goal or barrier, save of his own choosing, and, tempted, is too likely to guide it ill.

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  Life, Men, Errors

  Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (2010). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.406, Cambridge University Press

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• Perfect ignorance is quiet, perfect knowledge is quiet; not so the transition from the former to the latter.

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  Ignorance, Perfect, Transition

  Thomas Carlyle (1872). “Works”, p.217

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• To the wisest man, wide as is his vision. Nature remains of quite infinite depth, of quite infinite expansion and all experience thereof limits itself to some few computed centuries and measured square miles.

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  Men, Wisest Man, Squares

  Thomas Carlyle, G. B. Tennyson (1984). “Carlyle Reader”, p.302, CUP Archive

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• Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such; it is an accident, not a property of man.

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  Men, May, Tests

  Thomas Carlyle (1864). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays ...”, p.75

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• There are female dandies as well as clothes-wearing men; and the former are as objectionable as the latter.

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  Fashion, Men, Clothes

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• The true eye for talent presupposes the true reverence for it.

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  Eye, Talent, Reverence

  Thomas Carlyle (1858). “Chartism: Past and Present. By Thomas Carlyle”, p.94

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• Song is the heroics of speech.

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  Song, Speech

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