Thomas Carlyle Quotes - Page 30

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• A man's perfection is his work.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Work, Men, Perfection

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• Cash-payment is not the sole nexus of man with man.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Cash, Nexus

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• Nay, in every epoch of the world, the great event, parent of all others, is it not the arrival of a Thinker in the world?

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  Parent, Events, World

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.106, Lulu.com

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• The true Church of England, at this moment, lies in the Editors of the newspapers.

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  Lying, Editors, Church

  1829 Signs of the Times.

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• The true epic of our times is not "Arm's and the Man," but "Tools and the Man"--an infinitely wider kind of epic.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Epic, Men, Heroism

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• Out of the lowest depths there is a path to the loftiest heights.

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  Depth, Height, Path

  Thomas Carlyle (1871). “Works”, p.146

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• Poetry, therefore, we will call Musical Thought.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Poetry, Musical

  Thomas Carlyle (1864). “Sartor Resartus”, p.247

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• In this world there is one godlike thing, the essence of all that was or ever will be of godlike in this world: the veneration done to Human Worth by the hearts of men.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Appreciation, Heart, Men

  "The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle".

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• The errors of a wise man are literally more instructive than the truths of a fool. The wise man travels in lofty, far-seeing regions; the fool in low-lying, high-fenced lanes; retracing the footsteps of the former, to discover where he diviated, whole provinces of the universe are laid open to us; in the path of the latter, granting even that he has not deviated at all, little is laid open to us but two wheel-ruts and two hedges.

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  Wise, Lying, Science

  Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (2010). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.4, Cambridge University Press

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• The graceful minuet-dance of fancy must give place to the toilsome, thorny pilgrimage of understanding. On the transition from the age of romance to that of science.

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  Science, Giving, Romance

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• I came hither [Craigenputtoch] solely with the design to simplify my way of life and to secure the independence through which I could be enabled to remain true to myself.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Design, Independence, Way

  Thomas Carlyle (1866). “On the choice of books: the inaugural address of Thomas Carlyle”, p.19

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• We are not altogether here to tolerate. We are here to resist, to control and vanquish withal.

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  Leadership, Vanquish, Tolerate

  Thomas Carlyle (2016). “Heroes and Hero Worship: The Historian”, p.134, 北戴河出版

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• All sorts of Heroes are intrinsically of the same material; that given a great soul, open to the Divine Significance of Life, then there is given a man fit to speak of this, to sing of this, to fight and work for this, in a great, victorious, enduring manner; there is given a Hero, -- the outward shape of whom will depend on the time and the environment he finds himself in.

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  Hero, Fighting, Men

  Thomas Carlyle (1871). “The Collected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.271

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• In every object there is inexhaustible meaning; the eye sees in it what the eye brings means of seeing.

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  Knowledge, Mean, Eye

  Thomas Carlyle, Marianna De_Marinis (1851). “The French Revolution a History by Thomas Carlyle: The bastille”, p.8

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• For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.

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  Men, Judging, Quality

  Thomas Carlyle, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Swasey McKean, Charles Stearns Wheeler (1838). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays”, p.280

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• Hero-worship is the deepest root of all; the tap-root, from which in a great degree all the rest were nourished and grown . . . Worship of a Hero is transcendent admiration of a Great Man. I say great men are still admirable; I say there is, at bottom, nothing else admirable! No nobler feeling than this of admiration for one higher than himself dwells in the breast of men.

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  Hero, Men, Roots

  Thomas Carlyle (1840). “On Heroes, Hero-worship and the Heroic in History”, p.14, CUP Archive

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• A greater number of God's creatures believe in Mahomet's word at this hour than in any other word whatever. Are we to suppose that it was a miserable piece of spiritual legerdemain, this which so many creatures of the almighty have lived by and died by?

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  Spiritual, Believe, Numbers

  Thomas Carlyle (2016). “Heroes and Hero Worship: The Historian”, p.39, 北戴河出版

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• We have chosen Mahomet not as the most eminent Prophet; but as the one we are freest to speak of. He is by no means the truest of Prophets; but I do esteem him a true one.

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  Mean, Speak, Prophet

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.120, Lulu.com

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• Have not I myself known five hundred living soldiers sabred into crows' meat for a piece of glazed cotton, which they call their flag; which had you sold it at any market-cross, would not have brought above three groschen?

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  War, Soldier, Crow

  Thomas Carlyle (1908). “Sartor Resartus and Essays on Burns and Scott”

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• That a Parliament, especially a Parliament with Newspaper Reporters firmly established in it, is an entity which by its very nature cannot do work, but can do talk only.

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  Nature, Entity, Newspapers

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

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• The Christian must be consumed by the conviction of the infinite beauty of holiness and the infinite damnability of sin.

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  Inspirational, Christian, Infinite Beauty

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• Are not our greatest men as good as lost? The men that walk daily among us, warming us, feeding us, walk shrouded in darkness, mere mythic men.

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  Men, Darkness, He Man

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

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• A false man found a religion? Why, a false man cannot build a brick house!

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  Men, House, Bricks

  Thomas Carlyle (1871). “The Collected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.218

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• What is all Knowledge too but recorded Experience, and a product of History; of which, therefore, Reasoning and Belief, no less than Action and Passion, are essential materials?

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  Passion, Knowledge, Experience

  'Critical and Miscellaneous Essays' (1838) 'On History'

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• Experience takes dreadfully high school-wages, but he teaches like no other.

  Thomas Carlyle

  School, Experience, Wages

  Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (2010). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.293, Cambridge University Press

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