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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.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Science, Giving, Romance

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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.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Wise, Lying, Science

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

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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.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Thinking, Night, Blue

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

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• Obedience is our universal duty and destiny; wherein whoso will not bend must break; too early and too thoroughly we cannot be trained to know that "would," in this world of ours, is a mere zero to "should," and for most part as the smallest of fractions even to "shall.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Zero, Destiny, World

  Thomas Carlyle, G. B. Tennyson (1984). “Carlyle Reader”, p.192, CUP Archive

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

  Thomas Carlyle

  Lying, Editors, Church

  1829 Signs of the Times.

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• Creation is great, and cannot be understood.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Creation, Understood

  Thomas Carlyle (1872). “Works”, p.4

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

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Religion, Facts

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

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• Not only was Thebes built by the music of an Orpheus; but without the music of some inspired Orpheus was no city ever built, no work that man glories in ever done.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Cities, Done

  Thomas Carlyle (1871). “The Collected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.161

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• A poor creature who has said or done nothing worth a serious man taking the trouble of remembering.

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  Funny, Men, Serious Man

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• Shakespeare says, we are creatures that look before and after; the more surprising that we do not look around a little, and see what is passing under our very eyes.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Eye, Looks, Littles

  Sartor Resartus Book I, Chapter 1

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• An everlasting lodestar, that beams the brighter in the heavens the darker here on earth grows the night.

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  Night, Heaven, Religion

  Thomas Carlyle (1858). “Chartism: Past and Present. By Thomas Carlyle”, p.248

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

  Thomas Carlyle

  Rogues, Cunning, Devilish

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• In the huge mass of evil as it rolls and swells, there is ever some good working toward deliverance and triumph.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Evil, Triumph, Deliverance

  Thomas Carlyle (2007). “The French Revolution: A History”, p.10, Modern Library

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

  Thomas Carlyle

  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.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Real, Years, Two

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

  Thomas Carlyle

  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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• We observe with confidence that the truly strong mind, view it as intellect or morality, or under any other aspect, is nowise the mind acquainted with its strength; that here the sign of health is unconsciousness.

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  Strong, Greatness, Views

  Thomas Carlyle (1881). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: Collected and Republished”, p.4

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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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• 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.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Spirit, Infinite, Reaching

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

  Thomas Carlyle

  Silence, Spheres, Melody

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

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, House, Bricks

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

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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.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Darkness, He Man

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

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