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• Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Elements, Mysterious, Mystery

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• Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Inspirational, Dance, World

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• Language is called the garment of thought: however, it should rather be, language is the flesh-garment, the body, of thought.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Body, Flesh, Language

  'Sartor Resartus' (1834) bk. 1, ch. 11

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• The lightning spark of thought generated in the solitary mind awakens its likeness in another mind.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Innovation, Mind, Lightning

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• All true work is sacred.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Sacred, Labor

  Thomas Carlyle (1862). “Past and Present: Chartism, and Sartor Resartus”, p.203

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• Doubt of any kind cannot be resolved except by action.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Doubt, Action, Kind

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• A person with half volition goes backwards and forwards, but makes no progress on even the smoothest of roads.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Commitment, Progress, Half

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• Speak not at all, in any wise, till you have somewhat to speak; care not for the reward of your speaking, but simply and with undivided mind for the truth of your speaking.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Wise, Mind, Care

  Thomas Carlyle (1881). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: Collected and Republished”, p.47

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• Woe to him that claims obedience when it is not due; woe to him that refuses it when it is.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Woe, Obedience, Claims

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.228, Lulu.com

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• Happy the People whose Annals are blank in History Books!

  Thomas Carlyle

  Book, People, Blank

  "The Works of Thomas Carlyle".

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• If there be no enemy there's no fight. If no fight, no victory and if no victory there is no crown.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Fighting, Enemy, Victory

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• The essence of humor is sensibility; warm, tender fellow-feeling with all forms of existence.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Humor, Essence, Feelings

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• Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Demand, Parrots, Teach

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• He who could foresee affairs three days in advance would be rich for thousands of years.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Years, Would Be, Three

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• Is not light grander than fire? It is the same element in a state of purity.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Fire, Light, Elements

  Thomas Carlyle (1840). “Works”

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• Music is well said to be the speech of angels.

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  Inspirational, Music, Angel

  Thomas Carlyle (1888). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: Collected and Republished (first Time, 1839; Final, 1869)”

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• Woe to him, . . . who has no court of appeal against the world's judgment.

  Thomas Carlyle

  World, Woe, Judgment

  Thomas Carlyle (1872). “Works”, p.274

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• If Hero means sincere man, why may not every one of us be a Hero?

  Thomas Carlyle

  Hero, Mean, Men

  Thomas Carlyle (1966). “On Heroes, Hero-worship, and the Heroic in History”, p.127, U of Nebraska Press

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• A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  "Jean Paul Friedrich Richter" (1827)

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• A fair day's wages for a fair day's work.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Wages, Fairs

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.273, Lulu.com

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• Habit is the deepest law of human nature

  Thomas Carlyle

  Law, Human Nature, Habit

  Thomas Carlyle (1843). “Past and Present”, p.77

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• The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man; whatsoever he believes, he believes it for himself, not for another.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Inspirational, Believe, Men

  Thomas Carlyle (1840). “Works”, p.116

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• See deep enough, and you see musically.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Enough, Music Healing, Music And Healing

  Thomas Carlyle (1841). “On heroes, hero-worship, & the heroic in history: six lectures ; reported, with emendations and additions”, p.135

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• There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Writing, Men, Discovery

  John Stuart Mill, Thomas Carlyle (2010). “Autobiography of J.S. Mill & on Liberty; Characteristics, Inaugural Address at Edinburgh & Sir Walter Scott”, p.413, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Government is emphatically a machine: to the discontented a taxing machine, to the contented a machine for securing property.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Government, Liberty, Machines

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.19, Lulu.com

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