Thomas Carlyle Quotes - Page 26

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• Rare benevolence, the minister of God.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Ministers, Benevolence

  Thomas Carlyle (1872). “Past and Present”, p.3

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• A noble book! all men's book!

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  Bible, Book, Men

  Thomas Carlyle (2010). “On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History”, p.67, Cosimo, Inc.

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• There is in man a higher than love of happiness; he can do without happiness, and instead thereof find blessedness.

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  Men, Higher, Blessedness

  Thomas Carlyle (1833). “Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Zenfelsdröck in Three Books”, p.132

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• The insignificant, the empty, is usually the loud; and after the manner of a drum, is louder even because of its emptiness.

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  Emptiness, Empty, Loud

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• What the light of your mind, which is the direct inspiration of the Almighty, pronounces incredible, that, in God's name, leave uncredited. At your peril do not try believing that!

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  Believe, Inspiration, Light

  Thomas Carlyle (1857). “Life of Friedrich Schiller (1825): Life of John Sterling (1851)”, p.236

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• Unity, agreement, is always silent or soft-voiced; it is only discord that loudly proclaims itself.

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  Agreement, Unity, Silent

  Thomas Carlyle (1847). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: Collected and Republished”, p.381

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• Earnestness alone makes life eternity.

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  Eternity, Earnestness

  Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2010). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.157, Cambridge University Press

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• Friend, hast thou considered the "rugged, all-nourishing earth," as Sophocles well names her; how she feeds the sparrow on the housetop, much more her darling man?

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  Men, Names, Earth

  Thomas Carlyle, G. B. Tennyson (1984). “Carlyle Reader”, p.233, CUP Archive

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• Whose school-hours are all the days and nights of our existence.

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  Education, School, Night

  Thomas Carlyle (1857). “Life of Friedrich Schiller (1825): Life of John Sterling (1851)”, p.210

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• How were friendship possible? In mutual devotedness to the good and true; otherwise impossible, except as armed neutrality or hollow commercial league. A man, be the heavens ever praised, is sufficient for himself; yet were ten men, united in love, capable of being and of doing what ten thousand singly would fail in. Infinite is the help man can yield to man.

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  Friendship, Men, Yield

  Thomas Carlyle, Rodger L. Tarr, Mark Engel (2000). “Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh in Three Books”, p.216, Univ of California Press

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• Venerable to me is the hard hand,--crooked, coarse,--wherein, notwithstanding, lies a cunning virtue, indispensably royal as of the sceptre of the planet.

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  Lying, Hands, Royal

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• Heroes, it would seem, exist always and a certain worship of them.

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  Hero, Worship, Certain

  Thomas Carlyle (1840). “On Heroes, Hero-worship and the Heroic in History”, p.216

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• The greatest of all heroes is One--whom we do not name here! Let sacred silence meditate that sacred matter; you will find it the ultimate perfection of a principle extant throughout man's whole history on earth.

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  Hero, Men, Names

  Thomas Carlyle (1846). “On Heroes, Hero-worship, & the Heroic in History: Six Lectures ; Reported, with Emendations and Additions”, p.10

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• At the bottom there is no perfect history; there is none such conceivable. All past centuries have rotted down, and gone confusedly dumb and quiet.

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  Past, History, Perfect

  Thomas Carlyle, Oliver Cromwell, Henry Duff Traill (2010). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.7, Cambridge University Press

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• Alas! we know that ideals can never be completely embodied in practice. Ideals must ever lie a great way off--and we will thankfully content ourselves with any not intolerable approximation thereto! Let no man, as Schiller says, too querulously "measure by a scale of perfection the meager product of reality" in this poor world of ours.

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  Lying, Reality, Men

  Thomas Carlyle (1840). “On Heroes, Hero-worship and the Heroic in History”, p.234, CUP Archive

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• The situation that has not its duty, its ideal, was never yet occupied by man. Yes, here, in this poor, miserable, hampered, despicable actual, wherein thou even now standest, here or nowhere is thy ideal; work it out therefrom, and, working, believe, live, be free. Fool! the ideal is in thyself.

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  Believe, Men, Fool

  Thomas Carlyle (1871). “Works”, p.135

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• Without oblivion, there is no remembrance possible. When both oblivion and memory are wise, when the general soul of man is clear, melodious, true, there may come a modern Iliad as memorial of the Past.

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  Wise, Memories, Past

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

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• Piety does not mean that a man should make a sour face about things, and refuse to enjoy in moderation what his Maker has given.

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  Mean, Men, Doe

  Thomas Carlyle (1866). “On the Choice of Books. The inaugural address of Thomas Carlyle, Lord Rector of the University of Edinburgh. Reprinted from “the Times,” with additional articles, a memoir of the author, etc”, p.30

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• How, without clothes, could we possess the master organ, soul's seat and true pineal gland of the body social--I mean a purse?

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  Mean, Clothes, Soul

  Thomas Carlyle, Rodger L. Tarr, Mark Engel (2000). “Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh in Three Books”, p.50, Univ of California Press

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• If there be not a religious element in the relations of men, such relations are miserable and doomed to ruin.

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  Religious, Men, Religion

  Letter to Thomas Chalmers, October 11, 1841.

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• Consider in fact, a body of six hundred and fifty-eight miscellaneous persons, set to consult about "business," with twenty-seven millions, mostly fools, assiduously listening to them, and checking and criticising them. Was there ever, since the world began, will there ever be till the world end, any "business" accomplished in these circumstances?

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  Eight, Government, Listening

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.637, Lulu.com

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• The healthy know not of their health, but only the sick: this is the physician's aphorism, and applicable in a far wider sense than he gives it.

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  Health, Giving, Sick

  Thomas Carlyle (1881). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: Collected and Republished”, p.1

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• Just in ratio as knowledge increases, faith diminishes.

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  Knowledge, Ratios, Increase

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• The true eye for talent presupposes the true reverence for it.

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  Eye, Talent, Reverence

  Thomas Carlyle (1858). “Chartism: Past and Present. By Thomas Carlyle”, p.94

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• A very sea of thought; neither calm nor clear, if you will, yet wherein the toughest pearl-diver may dive to his utmost depth, and return not only with sea-wreck but with true orients.

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  Sea, Depth, Wrecks

  Thomas Carlyle, G. B. Tennyson (1984). “Carlyle Reader”, p.129, CUP Archive

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