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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.

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  Islamic, Mean, Becoming

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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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• Hardened round us, encasing wholly every notion we form is a wrapping of traditions, hearsay's, and mere words.

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  Tradition, Form, Notion

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• The mystery of a person, indeed, is ever divine to him that has a sense for the godlike.

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  Spirituality, Mystery, Divine

  Thomas Carlyle, G. B. Tennyson (1984). “Carlyle Reader”, p.214, CUP Archive

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• Variety is the condition of harmony.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Harmony, Variety, Conditions

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• It is meritorious to insist on forms; religion and all else naturally clothes itself in forms. Everywhere the formed world is the only habitable one.

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  Clothes, Earth, World

  Thomas Carlyle (1871). “The Collected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.339

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• What, in the devil's name, is the use of respectability, with never so many gigs and silver spoons, if thou inwardly art the pitifulness of all men?

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  Respect, Art, Men

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• Experience of actual fact either teaches fools or abolishes them.

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  Education, Science, Fool

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• Contented saturnine human figures, a dozen or so of them, sitting around a large long table...Perfect equality is to be the rule; no rising or notice taken when anybody enters or leaves. Let the entering man take his place and pipe, without obligatory remarks; if he cannot smoke...let him at least affect to do so, and not ruffle the established stream of things.

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  Taken, Men, Perfect

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• Life is a series of lessons that have to be understood.

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  Teaching, Learning, Lessons

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• Skepticism, as I said, is not intellectual only; it is moral also; a chronic atrophy and disease of the whole soul. A man lives by believing something; not by debating and arguing about many things. A sad case for him when all that he can manage to believe is something he can button in his pocket, and with one or the other organ eat and digest! Lower than that he will not get.

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  Believe, Men, Soul

  Thomas Carlyle, Edwin Markham (1842). “On Heroes, Hero-worship, and the Heroic in History: Six Lectures, Reported, with Emendations and Additions”, p.215

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• History is philosophy teaching by experience.

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  Philosophy, Teaching

  1838 Critical and Miscellaneous Essays,'History'.

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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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• 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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• But deepest of all illusory Appearances, for hiding Wonder, as for many other ends, are your two grand fundamental world-enveloping Appearances, SPACE and TIME. These, as spun and woven for us from before Birth itself, to clothe our celestial ME for dwelling here, and yet to blind it, lie all-embracing, as the universal canvas, or warp and woof, whereby all minor Illusions, in this Phantasm Existence, weave and paint themselves. In vain, while here on Earth, shall you endeavor to strip them off; you can, at best, but rend them asunder for moments, and look through.

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  Lying, Two, Dwelling

  Thomas Carlyle, G. B. Tennyson (1984). “Carlyle Reader”, p.304, CUP Archive

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• A lie should be trampled on and extinguished wherever found. I am for fumigating the atmosphere when I suspect that falsehood, like pestilence, breathes around me.

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  Lying, Atmosphere, Pestilence

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• A heavenly awe overshadowed and encompassed, as it still ought, and must, all earthly business whatsoever.

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  Awe, Heavenly, Stills

  Thomas Carlyle (1843). “Past and Present”, p.67

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• Our works are the mirror wherein the spirit first sees its natural lineaments. Hence, too, the folly of that impossible precept, Know theyself; till it be translated into this partially possible one, know what thou canst work at.

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  Life, Success, Work

  Thomas Carlyle, Rodger L. Tarr, Mark Engel (2000). “Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh in Three Books”, p.123, Univ of California Press

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• History after all is the true poetry.

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  Art, Philosophy, History

  Thomas Carlyle, A.H.R. Ball (2005). “The French Revolution”, p.13, Courier Corporation

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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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• O thou who art able to write a book which once in the two centuries or oftener there is a man gifted to do, envy not him whom they name city-builder, and inexpressibly pity him whom they name conqueror or city-burner.

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  Art, Book, Writing

  Thomas Carlyle, Rodger L. Tarr, Mark Engel (2000). “Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh in Three Books”, p.129, Univ of California Press

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