Thomas Carlyle Quotes - Page 26

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• What you see, but can't see over is as good as infinite.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Infinite, Ability

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

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  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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• 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.

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  Evil, Wicked, Alive

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

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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.

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  Art, Kings, Army

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

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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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• Hunger whets everything, especially Suspicion and Indignation.

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  Hunger, Suspicion, Indignation

  Thomas Carlyle (1837). “Collected Works”, p.304

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• After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books.

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  Book, Done, Professors

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• There must be a new world if there is to be any world at all!... These days of universal death must be days of universal new birth, if the ruin is not to be total and final! It is Time to make the dullest man consider; and ask himself, Whence he came? Whither he is bound?

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  Men, Finals, World

  Thomas Carlyle (1870). “Latter-day Pamphlets”, p.4, London : Chapman and Hall

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• History is the new poetry.

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  History

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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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• Variety is the condition of harmony.

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  Harmony, Variety, Conditions

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• On the whole, I would bid you stand up to your work, whatever it may be, and not be afraid of it; not in sorrows or contradictions to yield, but to push on towards the goal.

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  Yield, Goal, Training

  Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (2010). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.480, Cambridge University Press

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• History after all is the true poetry.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Art, Philosophy, History

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

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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?

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  Men, Doe, Worship

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

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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.

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  Views, Firsts, Faults

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

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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!

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  Peace, Lying, Unions

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

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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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• 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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• Lord Bacon could as easily have created the planets as he could have written Hamlet.

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  Lord, Planets, Written

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• Social Science, is not a 'gay science' but rueful, which finds the secret of this universe in 'supply and demand' and reduces the duty of human governors to that of letting men alone. Not a 'gay science', no, a dreary, desolate, and indeed quite abject and distressing one; what we might call, the dismal science

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  Ignorance, Gay, Men

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.472, Lulu.com

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

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  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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• 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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