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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 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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• 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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• Is not light grander than fire?

  Thomas Carlyle

  Fire, Light

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

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The end of man is action.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Action, Ends

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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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• 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.

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  Men, Demand, Made

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

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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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• 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.

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  Book, Men, Light

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

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• Insurrection, never so necessary, is a most sad necessity; and governors who wait for that to instruct them are surely getting into the fatalest course.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Waiting, Revolution, Courses

  Thomas Carlyle (1870). “Past and Present”, p.20

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• Love not pleasure; love God. This is the Everlasting Yea, wherein all contradiction is solved.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Love, Pleasure, Contradiction

  Thomas Carlyle (2016). “Sartor Resartus: The Historian”, p.141, 北戴河出版

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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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• Thirty millions, mostly fools.

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  Funny, Humor, Insulting

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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!

  Thomas Carlyle

  Islamic, Angel, Stories

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• The mystical bond of brotherhood makes all men brothers.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Brother, Men, Mystical

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

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  Lying, Writing, Character

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

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

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  Men, Heaven, Aspiration

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

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

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  Men, Machinery, Producers

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

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• Wonderful Force of Public Opinion! We must act and walk in all points as it prescribes; follow the traffic it bids us, realize the sum of money, the degree of influence it expects of us, or we shall be lightly esteemed; certain mouthfuls of articulate wind will be blown at us, and this what mortal courage can front?

  Thomas Carlyle

  Wind, Degrees, Public Opinion

  Thomas Carlyle (1855). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: By Thomas Carlyle”, p.195

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