Thomas Carlyle Quotes - Page 27

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• Thought will not work except in silence.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Silence

  Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (2010). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.174, Cambridge University Press

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• The sincere alone can recognize sincerity.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Sincerity, Sincere

  Thomas Carlyle (2016). “Heroes and Hero Worship: The Historian”, p.193, 北戴河出版

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• The aristocracy of feudal parchment has passed away with a mighty rushing, and now, by a natural course, we arrive at aristocracy of the money-bag.

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  Class, Rushing, Aristocracy

  Thomas Carlyle (1839). “The French Revolution: A History”, p.390

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• Goethe's devil is a cultivated personage and acquainted with the modern sciences; sneers at witchcraft and the black art even while employing them, and doubts most things, nay, half disbelieves even his own existence.

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  Art, Black, Doubt

  Thomas Carlyle (1872). “Miscellanies”, p.135

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• A collection of books is the best of all universities.

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  Book, Collections, University

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• I think Scandinavian Paganism, to us here, is more interesting than any other. It is, for one thing, the latest; it continued in these regions of Europe till the eleventh century; 800 years ago the Norwegians were still worshipers of Odin. It is interesting also as the creed of our fathers; the men whose blood still runs in our veins, whom doubtless we still resemble in so many ways.

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  Running, Father, Men

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• Poverty, we may say, surrounds a man with ready-made barriers, which if they do mournfully gall and hamper, do at least prescribe for him, and force on him, a sort of course and goal; a safe and beaten, though a circuitous, course. A great part of his guidance is secure against fatal error, is withdrawn from his control. The rich, again, has his whole life to guide, without goal or barrier, save of his own choosing, and, tempted, is too likely to guide it ill.

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  Life, Men, Errors

  Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (2010). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.406, Cambridge University Press

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• Perfect ignorance is quiet, perfect knowledge is quiet; not so the transition from the former to the latter.

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  Ignorance, Perfect, Transition

  Thomas Carlyle (1872). “Works”, p.217

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• To the wisest man, wide as is his vision. Nature remains of quite infinite depth, of quite infinite expansion and all experience thereof limits itself to some few computed centuries and measured square miles.

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  Men, Wisest Man, Squares

  Thomas Carlyle, G. B. Tennyson (1984). “Carlyle Reader”, p.302, CUP Archive

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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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• 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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• The mathematics of high achievement

  Thomas Carlyle

  Achievement, Mathematics

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• Biography is the only true history.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Life, Biographies, My Biography

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• He that has done nothing has known nothing.

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  Done, Action, Known

  Thomas Carlyle (1847). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: Collected and Republished”, p.166

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• The end of Man is an Action, and not a Thought, though it were the noblest?

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  Life And Love, Men, Action

  "Sartor Resartus: The Historian".

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• Worship of a hero is transcendent admiration of a great man.

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  Hero, Men, Admiration

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

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• Thou fool! Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom; that idle crag thou sittest on is six thousand years of age.

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  Art, Nature, Years

  Thomas Carlyle, Rodger L. Tarr, Mark Engel (2000). “Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh in Three Books”, p.80, Univ of California Press

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• Learn to be good readers, which is perhaps a more difficult thing than you imagine. Learn to be discriminative in your reading; to read faithfully, and with your best attention, all kinds of things which you have a real interest in,--a real, not an imaginary,--and which you find to be really fit for what you are engaged in.

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  Real, Reading, Attention

  Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (2010). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.455, Cambridge University Press

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• Let him who would move and convince others, be first moved and convinced himself.

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  Leadership, Moving, Want

  "Essay on Burns".

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• A fundamental mistake to call vehemence and rigidity strength! A man is not strong who takes convulsion-fits; though six men cannot hold him then. He that can walk under the heaviest weight without staggering, he is the strong man . . . A man who cannot hold his peace, till the time come for speaking and acting, is no right man.

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  Strength, Strong, Mistake

  Thomas Carlyle (1993). “On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History”, p.158, Univ of California Press

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• It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.

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  Birthday, Real, Men

  Sartor Resartus ch. 4 (1838)

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• A sad spectacle. If they be inhabited, what a scope for misery and folly. If they be not inhabited, what a waste of space.

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  Sadness, Space, Waste

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• Labor, wide as the earth, has its summit in heaven.

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  Heaven, Earth, Summit

  Thomas Carlyle (1872). “Past and Present”, p.262

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