Thomas Carlyle Quotes - Page 23

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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.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Father, Party, Eye

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

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• We have not read an author till we have seen his object, whatever it may be, as he saw it.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Reading, May, Saws

  Thomas Carlyle (1864). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays ...”, p.57

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• O Heaven, it is mysterious, it is awful to consider that we not only carry each a future Ghost within him; but are, in very deed, Ghosts!

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  Philosophy, Philosophical, Heaven

  "Sartor Resartus: The Historian".

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

  Thomas Carlyle

  Ignorance, Men, Use

  "Past and Present: Chartism".

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• A force as of madness in the hands of reason has done all that was ever done in the world.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Funny, Hands, Insanity

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• He that has a secret should not only hide it, but hide that he has it to hide.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Secret, Luck, Should

  "The French Revolution: The Historian".

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• The greatest mistake is to imagine that we never err.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Mistake, Imagine, Imagine That

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• Freedom is the one purport, wisely aimed at, or unwisely, of all man's struggles, toilings and sufferings, in this earth.

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  Freedom, Struggle, Men

  Thomas Carlyle (1872). “The French Revolution: a History”, p.160

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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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• 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?

  Thomas Carlyle

  Home, Science, Heaven

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• Properly speaking, all true work is religion.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Work, Religion

  Thomas Carlyle (1843). “Past and Present”, p.115

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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!

  Thomas Carlyle

  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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• 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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• It is part of my creed that the only poetry is history, could we tell it right.

  Thomas Carlyle

  History, Creeds, Poetry Is

  Thomas Carlyle (2007). “The French Revolution: A History”, p.17, Modern Library

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• The wise man is but a clever infant, spelling letters from a hieroglyphical prophetic book, the lexicon of which lies in eternity.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Inspirational, Wise, Clever

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 617), 1895.

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• What are your historical Facts still more your biographical Wilt thou know a man by stringing-together beadrolls of what thou namest Facts

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Historical, Together

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

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• To the vulgar eye, few things are wonderful that are not distant

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  Eye, Wonderful, Vulgar

  Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (2010). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.259, Cambridge University Press

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• No sooner does a great man depart, and leave his character as public property, than a crowd of little men rushes towards it. There they are gathered together, blinking up to it with such vision as they have, scanning it from afar, hovering round it this way and that, each cunningly endeavoring, by all arts, to catch some reflex of it in the little mirror of himself.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Art, Character, Men

  Thomas Carlyle (1839). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays”, p.2

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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.

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  Country, Thinking, Air

  Thomas Carlyle (1872). “Works”, p.5

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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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• Once turn to practice, error and truth will no longer consort together.

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  Errors, Practice, Together

  Thomas Carlyle (1881). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: Collected and Republished”, p.162

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• A background of wrath, which can be stirred up to the murderous infernal pitch, does lie in every man.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Lying, Anger, Men

  Thomas Carlyle (1857). “Critical and miscellaneous essays, collected and republ”, p.315

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

  Thomas Carlyle

  Faith, Eye, Men

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

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