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• As there is no danger of our becoming, any of us, Mahometans (i.e. Muslim), I mean to say all the good of him I justly can.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Islamic, Mean, Becoming

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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.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Real, Work, Men

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

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• Men are grown mechanical in head and in the heart, as well as in the hand. They have lost faith in individual endeavour, and in natural force of any kind.

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  Heart, Men, Hands

  1829 Signs of the Times.

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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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• Nothing ever happens but once in all this world. What I do now I do once for all. It is over and gone, with all its eternity of solemn meaning.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Events, Gone, World

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• Skepticism means, not intellectual doubt alone, but moral doubt.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Mean, Intellectual, Doubt

  Thomas Carlyle, A.H.R. Ball (2014). “Selections from Carlyle”, p.93, Cambridge University Press

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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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• And man's little Life has Duties that are great, that are alone great, and go up to Heaven and down to Hell.

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  Heaven, Littles, Hell

  "Past and Present and Chartism".

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• Statistics is a science which ought to be honourable, the basis of many most important sciences; but it is not to be carried on by steam, this science, any more than others are; a wise head is requisite for carrying it on.

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  Wise, Science, Important

  Critical and Miscellaneous Essays Chartism, II

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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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• A judicious man looks at Statistics, not to "get knowledge, but to save himself from having ignorance foisted 'on him".

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  Ignorance, Men, Use

  "Past and Present: Chartism".

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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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• We call that fire of the black thunder-cloud "electricity," and lecture learnedly about it, and grind the like of it out of glass and silk: but what is it? What made it? Whence comes it? Whither goes it?

  Thomas Carlyle

  Science, Fire, Clouds

  Thomas Carlyle (1846). “On Heroes, Hero-worship, & the Heroic in History: Six Lectures ; Reported, with Emendations and Additions”, p.7

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• Is man’s civilization only a wrappage, through which the savage nature of him can still burst, infernal as ever?

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  Men, Civilization, Savages

  Thomas Carlyle (1871). “The French revolution. A history”, p.210

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• Is not every meanest day the confluence of two eternities?

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  Two, Eternity, Confluence

  "The French Revolution, A History" by Thomas Carlyle, part I, book VI, chapter V., 1837.

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• Why did not somebody teach me the constellations, and make me at home in the starry heavens, which are always overhead, and which I don't half know to this day?

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  Home, Science, Heaven

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

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  Political, Nicknames, Economics

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• All comes out even at the end of the day.

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  The End Of The Day, Ends

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• The meaning of song goes deep. Who in logical words can explain the effect music has on us? A kind of inarticulate, unfathomable speech, which leads us to the edge of the infinite, and lets us for a moment gaze into that!

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  Music, Song, Speech

  Thomas Carlyle (1846). “On Heroes, Hero-worship, & the Heroic in History: Six Lectures ; Reported, with Emendations and Additions”, p.74

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• Men are to be guided only by their self-interests. Good government is a good balancing of these; and, except a keen eye and appetite for self-interest, requires no virtue in any quarter. To both parties it is emphatically a machine: to the discontented, a taxing-machine; to the contented, a machine for securing property. Its duties and its faults are not those of a father, but of an active parish-constable.

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  Father, Party, Eye

  Thomas Carlyle, A.H.R. Ball (2014). “Selections from Carlyle”, p.111, Cambridge University Press

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• Except by name, Jean Paul Friedrich Richter is little known out of Germany. The only thing connected with him, we think, that has reached this country is his saying,-imported by Madame de Staël, and thankfully pocketed by most newspaper critics,-"Providence has given to the French the empire of the land; to the English that of the sea; to the Germans that of-the air!" Richter: German humorist & prose writer.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Country, Thinking, Air

  Thomas Carlyle (1872). “Works”, p.5

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• Pin thy faith to no man's sleeve. Hast thou not two eyes of thy own?

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  Faith, Eye, Men

  Thomas Carlyle (1881). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: Collected and Republished”, p.329

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• To the mean eye all things are trivial, as certainly as to the jaundiced they are yellow.

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  Mean, Eye, Yellow

  Thomas Carlyle (1872). “On Heroes, Hero-worship and the Heroic in History”, p.87

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• Look around you. Your world-hosts are all in mutiny, in confusion, destitution; on the eve of fiery wreck and madness! They will not march farther for you, on the sixpence a day and supply-demand principle; they will not; nor ought they, nor can they. Ye shall reduce them to order, begin reducing them. to order, to just subordination; noble loyalty in return for noble guidance. Their souls are driven nigh mad; let yours be sane and ever saner.

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  Loyalty, Order, Mad

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• Is there no God, then, but at best an absentee God, sitting idle, ever since the first Sabbath, at the outside of his Universe?

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  God, Sitting, Firsts

  Thomas Carlyle (1871). “The Collected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.99

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