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• Our very walking is an incessant falling; a falling and a catching of ourselves before we come actually to the pavement. It is emblematic of all things a man does.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Fall, Men, Doe

  Thomas Carlyle, Alexander Carlyle (1904). “New letters of Thomas Carlyle”

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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?

  Thomas Carlyle

  God, Sitting, Firsts

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

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

  Thomas Carlyle

  Mean, Eye, Yellow

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

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• Does not every true man feel that he is himself made higher by doing reverence to what is really above him?

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Doe, Worship

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.100, Lulu.com

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

  Thomas Carlyle

  Two, Eternity, Confluence

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

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

  Thomas Carlyle

  The End Of The Day, Ends

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• There is no permanent place in this universe for evil... Evil may hide behind this fallacy and that, but it will be hunted from fallacy to fallacy until there is no more fallacy for it to hide behind.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Evil, May, Fallacy

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• Histories are as perfect as the Historian is wise, and is gifted with an eye and a soul.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Wise, Eye, History

  Oliver Cromwell, Thomas Carlyle (1857). “Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches: With Elucidations”, p.6

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• All history . . . is an inarticulate Bible.

  Thomas Carlyle

  History, Inarticulate

  Thomas Carlyle (1901). “Carlyle on Heroes, Hero-worship, and the Heroic in History”

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• He who first shortened the labor of Copyists by device of Movable Types was disbanding hired armies and cashiering most Kings and Senates, and creating a whole new Democratic world: he had invented the Art of printing.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Art, Kings, Army

  'Sartor Resartus' (1834) bk. 1, ch. 5

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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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• Midas-eared Mammonism, double-barrelled Dilettantism, and their thousand adjuncts and corollaries, are not the Law by which God Almighty has appointed this His universe to go.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Law, Wealth, Almighty

  Thomas Carlyle (1858). “Chartism: Past and Present. By Thomas Carlyle”, p.96

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• The goal of yesterday will be our starting-point to-morrow.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Yesterday, Goal, Starting

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• Reform, like charity, must begin at home.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Home, Reform, Charity

  Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (2010). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.316, Cambridge University Press

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• Nature admits no lie.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Nature, Lying

  1850 Latter-Day Pamphlets, no.5.

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• Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with; as if, observes our author himself, any originality but our own could be expected to content us! In fact all strange thing are apt, without fault of theirs, to estrange us at first view, and unhappily scarcely anything is perfectly plain, but what is also perfectly common.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Views, Firsts, Faults

  Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (2010). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.11, Cambridge University Press

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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.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Mean, Reality, Men

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

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• Caution is the lower story of prudence.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Stories, Caution, Prudence

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

  Thomas Carlyle

  Past, Endurance, Cheerfulness

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• With union grounded on falsehood and ordering us to speak and act lies, we will not have anything to do. Peace? A brutal lethargy is peaceable; the noisome is peaceable. We hope for a living peace, not a dead one!

  Thomas Carlyle

  Peace, Lying, Unions

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.185, Lulu.com

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• Every man is my superior in that I may learn from him.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, May, Every Man

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• Clever men are good, but they are not the best.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Inspirational, Clever, Men

  Thomas Carlyle, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Swasey McKean, Charles Stearns Wheeler (1838). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays”, p.278

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• Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Art, Silence, Speech

  Thomas Carlyle, G. B. Tennyson (1984). “Carlyle Reader”, p.20, CUP Archive

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• History is the new poetry.

  Thomas Carlyle

  History

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• The dead are all holy, even they that were base and wicked while alive. Their baseness and wickedness was not they, was but the heavy and unmanageable environment that lay round them.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Evil, Wicked, Alive

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

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