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• Every man has a coward and hero in his soul.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Hero, Men, Soul

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• Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Birthday, Time, Sorrow

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• Let him who gropes painfully in darkness or uncertain light, and prays vehemently that the dawn may ripen into day, lay this precept well to heart: "Do the duty which lies nearest to thee," which thou know to be a duty! Thy second duty will already have become clearer.

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  Lying, Heart, Light

  1833-4 Sartor Resartus, bk.2, ch.9.

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• All work, even cotton-spinning, is noble; work is alone noble.

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  Life, Positive, Noble

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.365, Lulu.com

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• It is not to taste sweet things; but to do noble and true things, and vindicate himself under God's heaven as a God-made man, that the poorest son of Adam dimly longs. Show him the way of doing that, the dullest day-drudge kindles into a hero. They wrong man greatly who say he is to be seduced by ease. Difficulty, abnegation, martyrdom, death, are the allurements that act on the heart of man. Kindle the inner genial life of him, you have a flame that burns up all lower considerations.

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  Sweet, Hero, Heart

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.139, Lulu.com

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• Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.

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  Men, Healthy, Virtue

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• This we take it is the grand characteristic of our age. By our skill in Mechanism, it has come to pass, that in the management ofexternal things we excel all other ages; while in whatever respects the pure moral nature, in true dignity of soul and character, we are perhaps inferior to most civilised ages.

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  Character, Skills, Soul

  Thomas Carlyle (1855). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: By Thomas Carlyle”, p.193

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• In books lies the soul fo the whole past time.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Lying, Book, Past

  'On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic' (1841) 'The Hero as Man of Letters'

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• The great soul of this world is just.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Justice, Soul, World

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• No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, could ever compel the soul of man to believe or to disbelieve: it is his own indefeasible light, that judgment of his; he will reign and believe there by the grace of God alone!

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  Believe, Men, Light

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.177, Lulu.com

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• A man must indeed be a hero to appear such in the eyes of his valet.

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  Hero, Eye, Men

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• Violence does even justice unjustly.

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  Justice, Doe, Violence

  Thomas Carlyle (1843). “Past and Present”, p.20

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• Every human being has a right to hear what other wise human beings have spoken to him. It is one of the Rights of Men; a very cruel injustice if you deny it to a man!

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  Wise, Freedom, Men

  1840 Letter to John Sterling, collected in New Letters of Carlyle (1904), vol.1.

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• Nine-tenths of the miseries and vices of mankind proceed from idleness.

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  Vices, Nine, Misery

  Thomas Carlyle (1857). “Life of Friedrich Schiller (1825): Life of John Sterling (1851)”, p.38

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• Laughter means sympathy.

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  Laughter, Mean

  Thomas Carlyle (1872). “Works”, p.101

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• Heroes have gone out; quacks have come in; the reign of quacks has not ended with the nineteenth century. The sceptre is held with a firmer grasp; the empire has a wider boundary. We are all the slaves of quackery in one shape or another. Indeed, one portion of our being is always playing the successful quack to the other.

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  Hero, Successful, Reign

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• Let one who wants to move and convince others, first be convinced and moved themselves. If a person speaks with genuine earnestness the thoughts, the emotion and the actual condition of their own heart, others will listen because we all are knit together by the tie of sympathy.

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  Moving, Heart, Ties

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• The greatest event for the world is the arrival of a new and wise person.

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  Wise, Wisdom, Events

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• Money, in truth, can do much, but it cannot do all. We must know the province of it, and confine it there, and even spurn it back when it wishes to get farther.

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  Money, Wish, Back When

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.206, Lulu.com

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• The spiritual is the parent of the practical.

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  Spiritual, Parent, Spirituality

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• All destruction, by violent revolution or however it be, is but new creation on a wider scale.

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  Revolution, Rebellion, Creation

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• Why multiply instances? It is written, the Heavens and the Earth shall fade away like a Vesture; which indeed they are: the Time-vesture of the Eternal. Whatsoever sensibly exists, whatsoever represents Spirit to Spirit, is properly a Clothing, a suit of Raiment, put on for a season, and to be laid off. Thus in this one pregnant subject of CLOTHES, rightly understood, is included all that men have thought, dreamed, done, and been: the whole External Universe and what it holds is but Clothing; and the essence of all Science lies in the PHILOSOPHY OF CLOTHES.

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  Philosophy, Lying, Men

  Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (2010). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.58, Cambridge University Press

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• Rest is for the dead.

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  Death, Dying

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• Laws, written, if not on stone tables, yet on the azure of infinitude, in the inner heart of God's creation, certain as life, certain as death, are there, and thou shalt not disobey them.

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  Heart, Science, Law

  Thomas Carlyle (1872). “Past and Present”, p.198

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• A man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind.

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  Inspirational, Men, Blessing

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