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• There is always hope in a man that actually and earnestly works: in Idleness alone is there perpetual despair.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Work, Men

  "Past and Present".

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• The coldest word was once a glowing new metaphor.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Glowing, Language, Metaphor

  Thomas Carlyle (1843). “Past and Present”, p.79

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• There needs not a great soul to make a hero; there needs a god-created soul which will be true to its origin; that will be a great soul!

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  Hero, Soul, Needs

  Thomas Carlyle (1840). “On Heroes, Hero-worship and the Heroic in History”, p.171, CUP Archive

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• No man at bottom means injustice; it is always for some obscure distorted image of a right that he contends: an obscure image diffracted, exaggerated, in the wonderfulest way by natural dimness and selfishness; getting tenfold more diffracted by exasperation of contest, till at length it become all but irrecognis-able.

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  Mean, Men, Selfishness

  Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (2010). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.123, Cambridge University Press

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• Creation is great, and cannot be understood.

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  Creation, Understood

  Thomas Carlyle (1872). “Works”, p.4

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• He that works and does some Poem, not he that merely says one, is worthy of the name of Poet.

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  Names, Doe, Poet

  Thomas Carlyle, Oliver Cromwell, Henry Duff Traill (2010). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.78, Cambridge University Press

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• Silence is the eternal duty of man.

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  Men, Silence, Duty

  Thomas Carlyle (1866). “On the choice of books: the inaugural address of Thomas Carlyle”, p.79

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• The eye of the intellect "sees in all objects what it brought with it the means of seeing."

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  Mean, Eye, Intellect

  Thomas Carlyle (1857). “Critical and miscellaneous essays, collected and republ”, p.198

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• The nobleness of silence. The highest melody dwells only in silence,--the sphere melody, the melody of health.

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  Silence, Spheres, Melody

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• To be true is manly, chivalrous, Christian; to be false is mean, cowardly, devilish.

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  Christian, Mean, Being True

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• Men worship the shows of great men; the most disbelieve that there is any reality of great men to worship.

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  Reality, Greatness, Men

  Thomas Carlyle (1869). “Heroes and Hero-worship”, p.100

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• Out of Eternity the new day is born; Into Eternity at night will return.

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  Night, New Day, Return

  Thomas Carlyle, “Today”

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• Love is the only game that is not called on account of darkness.

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  Love, Games, Darkness

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• I had a lifelong quarrel with God, but in the end we made up.

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  Faith, Christianity, Ends

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• It is well said, in every sense, that a man's religion is the chief fact with regard to him.

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  Men, Religion, Facts

  1841 On Heroes, Hero- Worship, and the Heroic,'The Hero as Divinity' (published 1897).

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• So here hath been dawning Another blue day; Think, wilt thou let it Slip useless away? Out of eternity This new day is born, Into eternity At night will return.

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  Thinking, Night, Blue

  Thomas Carlyle (1857). “Critical & Miscellaneous Essays: Collected & Republished”, p.356

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• The Highest Being reveals himself in man.

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  Men, Highest

  Thomas Carlyle (1864). “Sartor Resartus”, p.192

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• A pygmy standing on the outward crust of this small planet, his far-reaching spirit stretches outward to the infinite, and there alone finds rest.

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  Spirit, Infinite, Reaching

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• Does it ever give thee pause that men used to have a soul? Not by hearsay alone, or as a figure of speech, but as a thruth that they knew and acted upon. Verily it was another world then, but yet it is a pity we have lost the tidings of our souls. We shall have to go in search of them again or worse in all ways shall befall us.

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  Men, Giving, Soul

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• Roguery is thought by some to be cunning and laughable: it is neither; it is devilish.

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  Rogues, Cunning, Devilish

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• The steam-engine I call fire-demon and great; but it is nothing to the invention of fire.

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  Fire, Demon, Invention

  Thomas Carlyle (1858). “Chartism: Past and Present. By Thomas Carlyle”, p.52

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• Neither had Watt of the Steam engine a heroic origin, any kindred with the princes of this world. The princes of this world were shooting their partridges... While this man with blackened fingers, with grim brow, was searching out, in his workshop, the Fire-secret.

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  Men, Fire, Secret

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.75, Lulu.com

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• Money will buy money's worth; but the thing men call fame, what is it?

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  Men, Fame

  Thomas Carlyle (1857). “Critical and miscellaneous essays, collected and republ”, p.157

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• What a wretched thing is all fame! A renown of the highest sort endures, say, for two thousand years. And then? Why, then, a fathomless eternity swallows it. Work for eternity; not the meagre rhetorical eternity of the periodical critics, but for the real eternity wherein dwelleth the Divine.

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  Real, Years, Two

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• How indestructibly the good grows, and propagates itself, even among the weedy entanglements of evil.

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  Evil, Goodness, Entanglement

  Thomas Carlyle, Rodger L. Tarr, Mark Engel (2000). “Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh in Three Books”, p.76, Univ of California Press

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