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

  Thomas Carlyle

  Leadership, Vanquish, Tolerate

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

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• Skepticism . . . is not intellectual only it is moral also, a chronic atrophy and disease of the whole soul.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Wise, Soul, Intellectual

  Thomas Carlyle, Edwin Markham (1842). “On Heroes, Hero-worship, and the Heroic in History: Six Lectures, Reported, with Emendations and Additions”, p.215

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• The king is the man who can.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Kings, Men, He Man

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• For man is not the creature and product of Mechanism; but, in a far truer sense, its creator and producer.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Machinery, Producers

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.22, Lulu.com

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• A Fourth Estate, of Able Editors, springs up.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Spring, Editors, Able

  Thomas Carlyle (1871). “The French Revolution: A History”, p.205

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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?

  Thomas Carlyle

  Parent, Events, World

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

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• A fair day's wage for a fair day's work": it is as just a demand as governed men ever made of governing. It is the everlasting right of man.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Demand, Made

  Thomas Carlyle (1872). “Works”, p.16

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• High Air-castles are cunningly built of Words, the Words well bedded also in good Logic-mortar; wherein, however, no Knowledge will come to lodge.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Air, Castles, Logic

  Thomas Carlyle (1872). “Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh”, p.36

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• France was long a despotism tempered by epigrams.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Long, France, Despotism

  History of the French Revolution vol. 3, bk. 7, ch. 7 (1837)

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• In the poorest cottage are Books: is one Book, wherein for several thousands of years the spirit of man has found light, and nourishment, and an interpreting response to whatever is Deepest in him.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Book, Men, Light

  Thomas Carlyle (1857). “Critical & Miscellaneous Essays: Collected & Republished”, p.161

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• The true Sovereign of the world, who moulds the world like soft wax, according to his pleasure, is he who lovingly sees into the world.

  Thomas Carlyle

  World, Sovereign, Pleasure

  Thomas Carlyle (1857). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: (VI, 507 p.)”, p.377

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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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• Misery which, through long ages, had no spokesman, no helper, will now be its own helper and speak for itself.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Long, Age, Misery

  Thomas Carlyle (1872). “The French Revolution: a History”, p.235

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• The English are a dumb people. They can do great acts, but not describe them.

  Thomas Carlyle

  People, Dumb, Dumb People

  Thomas Carlyle (1843). “Past and Present”, p.93

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• In every man's writings, the character of the writer must lie recorded.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Lying, Writing, Character

  Thomas Carlyle (1872). “Works”, p.212

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• One seems to believe almost all that they believe; and when they stop short and call it a Religion, and you pass on, and call it only a reminiscence of one, should you not part with the kiss of peace?

  Thomas Carlyle

  Believe, Kissing, Atheism

  Thomas Carlyle (1923). “Letters of Thomas Carlyle to John Stuart Mill, John Sterling and Robert Browning”

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• The end of man is action.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Action, Ends

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• Macaulay is well for awhile, but one wouldn't live under Niagara.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Wells, Niagara

  In R. M. Milnes 'Notebook' (1838) p. 157

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• In no time whatever can small critics entirely eradicate out of living men's hearts a certain altogether peculiar collar reverence for Great Men--genuine admiration, loyalty, adora-tion.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Loyalty, Appreciation, Heart

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• A man--be the heavens ever praised!--is sufficient for himself.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Heaven, Aspiration

  Thomas Carlyle (1871). “The Collected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.180

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

  Thomas Carlyle

  Christian, Mean, Being True

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• Is not light grander than fire?

  Thomas Carlyle

  Fire, Light

  Thomas Carlyle (1872). “Past and Present”, p.203

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• The civil authority, or that part of it which remained faithful to their trust and true to the ends of the covenant, did, in answer to their consciences, turn out a tyrant, in a way which the Christians in aftertimes will mention with honor, and all tyrants in the world look at with fear.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Christian, Loyalty, Tyrants

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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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