Thomas Carlyle Quotes - Page 22

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• The Bible is the truest utterance that ever came by alphabetic letters from the soul of man, through which, as through a window divinely opened, all men can look into the stillness of eternity, and discern in glimpses their far-distant, long-forgotten home.

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  Bible, Home, Biblical

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

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  Pain, Miserable, Given

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• What you see, but can't see over is as good as infinite.

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  Infinite, Ability

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• True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.

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  Love, Cute, Happiness

  Thomas Carlyle, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Swasey McKean, Charles Stearns Wheeler (1838). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays”, p.18

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• Man's unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite.

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  Happiness, Greatness, Men

  'Sartor Resartus' (1834) bk. 2, ch. 9

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• Thought once awakened does not again slumber; unfolds itself into a System of Thought; grows, in man after man, generation after generation, - till its full stature is reached, and such System of Thought can grow no farther, but must give place to another.

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  Science, Men, Thinking

  Thomas Carlyle (1840). “Works”, p.20

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• In books lies the soul of the whole Past Time; the articulate audible voice of the Past, when the body and material substance of it has altogether vanished like a dream.

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  Dream, Time, Lying

  'On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic' (1841) 'The Hero as Man of Letters'

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• The past is all holy to us; the dead are all holy; even they that were wicked when alive.

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  Time, Past, Wicked

  Thomas Carlyle (1881). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: Collected and Republished”, p.45

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• Let Time and Chance combine, combine!
  Let Time and Chance combine!
  The fairest love from heaven above,
  That love of yours was mine,
  My Dear!
  That love of yours was mine.

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  Life, Heaven, Chance

  Thomas Carlyle (1857). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays”, p.473

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• Great souls are always loyally submissive, reverent to what is over them: only small mean souls are otherwise.

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  Respect, Mean, Soul

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.215, Lulu.com

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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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• 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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• Might and right do differ frightfully from hour to hour, but then centuries to try it in, they are found to be identical.

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  Trying, Vices, Might

  Thomas Carlyle (1872). “Works”, p.158

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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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• Even in the meanest sorts of labor, the whole soul of a man is composed into a kind of real harmony the instant he sets himself to work.

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  Real, Work, Men

  Thomas Carlyle (1848). “Past and Present: Chartism. New Ed., Complete in One Volume”, p.197

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• Song is the heroics of speech.

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  Song, Speech

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• Tobacco smoke is the one element in which, by our European manners, men can sit silent together without embarrassment, and where no man is bound to speak one word more than he has actually and veritably got to say. Nay, rather every man is admonished and enjoined by the laws of honor, and even of personal ease, to stop short of that point; and at all events to hold his peace and take to his pipe again the instant he has spoken his meaning, if he chance to have any.

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  Men, Law, Smoking

  Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (1903). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle: History of Friedrich II of Prussia, called Frederick the Great”

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• Social Science, is not a 'gay science' but rueful, which finds the secret of this universe in 'supply and demand' and reduces the duty of human governors to that of letting men alone. Not a 'gay science', no, a dreary, desolate, and indeed quite abject and distressing one; what we might call, the dismal science

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  Ignorance, Gay, Men

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.472, Lulu.com

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• O thou that pinest in the imprisonment of the Actual, and criest bitterly to the gods for a kingdom wherein to rule and create, know this for a truth: the thing thou seekest is already here, "here or nowhere," couldst thou only see.

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  Powerful, Kingdoms, Knows

  Thomas Carlyle, Rodger L. Tarr, Mark Engel (2000). “Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh in Three Books”, p.145, Univ of California Press

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• Force, force, everywhere force; we ourselves a mysterious force in the centre of that. "There is not a leaf rotting on the highway but has Force in it: how else could it rot?" [As used in his time, by the word force, Carlyle means energy.]

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  Mean, Energy, Rotting

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• On the whole, I would bid you stand up to your work, whatever it may be, and not be afraid of it; not in sorrows or contradictions to yield, but to push on towards the goal.

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  Yield, Goal, Training

  Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (2010). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.480, Cambridge University Press

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• Coining "Dismal Science" as a nickname for Political Economy

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  Political, Nicknames, Economics

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• The person who cannot laugh is not only ready for treason, and deceptions, their whole life is already a treason and deception.

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  Laughter, Laughing, Deception

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• Not our Logical, Mensurative faculty, but our Imaginative one is King over us; I might say, Priest and Prophet to lead us heavenward; or Magician and Wizard to lead us hellward.

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  Kings, War, Heaven

  "Sartor Resartus: The Historian".

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• But the whim we have of happiness is somewhat thus. By certain valuations, and averages, of our own striking, we come upon some sort of average terrestrial lot; this we fancy belongs to us by nature, and of indefeasible rights. It is simple payment of our wages, of our deserts; requires neither thanks nor complaint. Foolish soul! What act of legislature was there that thou shouldst be happy? A little while ago thou hadst no right to be at all.

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  Happiness, Simple, Rights

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