Thomas Carlyle Quotes - Page 31

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

  Thomas Carlyle

  Mean, Eye, Intellect

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

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

  Thomas Carlyle

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

  Thomas Carlyle

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

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  School, Experience, Wages

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

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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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• 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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• Poetry, therefore, we will call Musical Thought.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Poetry, Musical

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

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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.

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  Respect, Men, Feelings

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

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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.

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  Attitude, Names, Lucky

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

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

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  Humanity, Gorillas, No Patience

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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.

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  Appreciation, Heart, Men

  "The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle".

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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.

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  Sympathy, Understanding, Tolerance

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• When Pococke inquired of Grotius, where the proof was of that story of the pigeon, trained to pick peas from Mahomet's (Muhammad's) ear, and pass for an angel dictating to him? Grotius answered that there was no proof!

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  Islamic, Angel, Stories

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

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  Music, March, Sensible

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• A man's perfection is his work.

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  Work, Men, Perfection

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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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• Democracy is, by the nature of it, a self-canceling business: and gives in the long run a net result of zero.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Running, Zero, Self

  "Chartism". Book by Thomas Carlyle, 1840.

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• Thirty millions, mostly fools.

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  Funny, Humor, Insulting

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• The mystical bond of brotherhood makes all men brothers.

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  Brother, Men, Mystical

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