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• No person was every rightly understood until they had been first regarded with a certain feeling, not of tolerance, but of sympathy.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Sympathy, Understanding, Tolerance

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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 depth of our despair measures what capability and height of claim we have to hope.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Despair, Depth, Height

  Thomas Carlyle, Oliver Cromwell, Henry Duff Traill (2010). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.51, Cambridge University Press

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• One is hardly sensible of fatigue while he marches to music.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Music, March, Sensible

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• Of a truth, men are mystically united: a mystic bond of brotherhood makes all men one.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Sympathy, Men, Brotherhood Of Man

  Thomas Carlyle (1881). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: Collected and Republished”, p.115

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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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• It is not a lucky word, this name impossible; no good comes of those who have it so often in their mouths.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Attitude, Names, Lucky

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• Conclusive facts are inseparable from inconclusive except by a head that already understands and knows.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Facts, Inseparable, Knows

  English and other Critical Essays Chartism Chapter II

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• My whinstone house my castle is, I have my own four walls.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Wall, Home, House

  Thomas Carlyle, Jane Welsh Carlyle (1977). “The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle: Jan. 1829-Sept. 1831”

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• There is but one temple in this Universe: The Body. We speak to God whenever we lay our hands upon it.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Philosophy, Hands, Medicine

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• Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Funny Basketball, Originality, Clamour

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

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• No good book, or good thing of any sort, shows its best face at first.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Book, Faces, Firsts

  Thomas Carlyle (1864). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays ...”, p.167

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• Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such: it is an accident, not a property, of a man; like light, it can give little or nothing, but at most may show what is given.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Tests, Merit, Fame

  "The Works of Thomas Carlyle".

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• The fine arts once divorcing themselves from truth are quite certain to fall mad, if they do not die.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Art, Fall, Mad

  Thomas Carlyle (1872). “Works”, p.273

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• The greatest fault is to be conscious of none.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Faults, Conscious

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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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• 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.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Strong, Greatness, Views

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

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• I have no patience whatever with these gorilla damnifications of humanity.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Humanity, Gorillas, No Patience

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

  Thomas Carlyle

  Night, Heaven, Religion

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

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• The world is an old woman, and mistakes any gilt farthing for a gold coin; whereby being often cheated, she will thenceforth trust nothing but the common copper.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Mistake, Gold, Coins

  Thomas Carlyle (1838). “Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh ; In Three Books ...”, p.129

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• No nobler feeling than this, of admiration for one higher than himself, dwells in the breast of man. It is to this hour, and at all hours, the vivifying influence in man's life.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Respect, Men, Feelings

  Thomas Carlyle (1864). “Sartor Resartus”, p.193

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• Beautiful it is, and a gleam from the same eternal pole-star visible amid the destinies of men, that all talent, all intellect, is in the first plane moral. What a world were this otherwise!

  Thomas Carlyle

  Beautiful, Stars, Destiny

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

  Thomas Carlyle

  Funny, Men, Serious Man

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• Man's earthly interests,'are all hooked and buttoned together, and held up, by Clothes.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Clothes, Together

  1833-4 Sartor Resartus, bk.1, ch.8.

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• Ever, as before, does Madness remain a mysterious-terrific, altogether infernal boiling-up of the Nether Chaotic Deep, through this fair-painted Vision of Creation, which swims thereon, which we name the Real.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Real, Names, Swim

  Thomas Carlyle (1871). “The Collected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.159

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