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That monstrous tuberosity of civilised life, the capital of England.
— Thomas Carlyle
The latest gospel in this world is, know thy work and do it.
— Thomas Carlyle
Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with
— Thomas Carlyle
Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man.
— Thomas Carlyle
Thou fool! Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom; that idle crag thou sittest on is six thousand years of age.
— Thomas Carlyle
Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.
— Thomas Carlyle
Well at ease are the Sleepers for whom Existence is a shallow Dream.
— Thomas Carlyle
One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO.
— Thomas Carlyle
Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
— Thomas Carlyle
The insignificant, the empty, is usually the loud; and after the manner of a drum, is louder even because of its emptiness.
— Thomas Carlyle
Whose school-hours are all the days and nights of our existence.
— Thomas Carlyle
Caution is the lower story of prudence.
— Thomas Carlyle
To the vulgar eye, few things are wonderful that are not distant
— Thomas Carlyle
France was long a despotism tempered by epigrams.
— Thomas Carlyle
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
Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
— Thomas Carlyle
Pin your faith to no ones sleeves, haven't you two eyes of your own.
— Thomas Carlyle
God Almighty never created a man half as wise as he looks.
— Thomas Carlyle
Is there no God, then, but at best an absentee God, sitting idle, ever since the first Sabbath, at the outside of his Universe?
— Thomas Carlyle
Parliament will train you to talk; and above all things to hear, with patience, unlimited quantities of foolish talk.
— Thomas Carlyle
Hunger whets everything, especially Suspicion and Indignation.
— Thomas Carlyle
A judicious man uses statistics, not to get knowledge, but to save himself from having ignorance foisted upon him.
— Thomas Carlyle
Wealth of a man is the number of things which he loves and blesses which he is loved and blessed by.
— Thomas Carlyle
Let him who wants to move and convince others, be first moved and convinced himself.
— Thomas Carlyle
There is often more spiritual force in a proverb than in whole philosophical systems.
— Thomas Carlyle
The philosopher is he to whom the highest has descended, and the lowest has mounted up; who is the equal and kindly brother of all.
— Thomas Carlyle
The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.
— Thomas Carlyle
No ghost was every seen by two pair of eyes.
— Thomas Carlyle
A collection of books is the best of all universities.
— Thomas Carlyle
The lightning spark of thought generated in the solitary mind awakens its likeness in another mind.
— Thomas Carlyle
I call the book of Job, apart from all theories about it, one of the grandest things ever written with the pen.
— Thomas Carlyle
One is hardly sensible of fatigue while he marches to music.
— Thomas Carlyle
Laws themselves, political Constitutions, are not our Life; but only the house wherein our Life is led.
— Thomas Carlyle
Man is, and was always, a block-head and dullard; much readier to feel and digest, than to think and consider.
— Thomas Carlyle
If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.
— Thomas Carlyle
Of all the things which man can do or make here below, by far the most momentous, wonderful, and worthy are the things we call books.
— Thomas Carlyle
At worst, is not this an unjust world, full of nothing but beasts of prey, four-footed or two-footed?
— Thomas Carlyle
Great souls are always loyally submissive, reverent to what is over them: only small mean souls are otherwise.
— Thomas Carlyle
At the bottom there is no perfect history; there is none such conceivable. All past centuries have rotted down, and gone confusedly dumb and quiet.
— Thomas Carlyle
The world is a thing that a man must learn to despise, and even to neglect, before he can learn to reverence it, and work in it and for it.
— Thomas Carlyle
If a book comes from the heart, it will contrive to reach other hearts; all art and author-craft are of small amount to that.
— Thomas Carlyle
The mystery of a person, indeed, is ever divine to him that has a sense for the godlike.
— Thomas Carlyle
We looked out on Life, with its strange scaffolding,
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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.
— Thomas Carlyle
O Time! Time! how it brings forth and devours! And the roaring flood of existence rushes on forever similar, forever changing!
— Thomas Carlyle
. . . everywhere a good and a bad book
— Thomas Carlyle
The wise man is but a clever infant, spelling letters from a hieroglyphical prophetic book, the lexicon of which lies in eternity.
— Thomas Carlyle
A Fourth Estate, of Able Editors, springs up.
— Thomas Carlyle
Love is the only game that is not called on account of darkness.
— Thomas Carlyle
Fire is the best of servants, but what a master!
— Thomas Carlyle
I know so little about any history. How little do I know even about the history of myself.
— Thomas Carlyle
When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with its fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.
— Thomas Carlyle
He that has done nothing has known nothing.
— Thomas Carlyle
Variety is the condition of harmony.
— Thomas Carlyle
A man protesting against error is on the way towards uniting himself with all men that believe in truth.
— Thomas Carlyle
Laughter means sympathy.
— Thomas Carlyle
Let me have my own way in exactly everything and a sunnier and pleasanter creature does not exist.
— Thomas Carlyle
No country can find eternal peace and comfort where the vote of Judas Iscariot is as good as the vote of the Saviour of mankind.
— Thomas Carlyle
Earnestness alone makes life eternity.
— Thomas Carlyle
Conclusive facts are inseparable from inconclusive except by a head that already understands and knows.
— Thomas Carlyle
Pain was not given thee merely to be miserable under; learn from it, turn it to account.
— Thomas Carlyle
What you see, but can't see over is as good as infinite.
— Thomas Carlyle
Music ... a kind of inarticulate, unfathomable speech, which leads to the edge of the Infinite.
— Thomas Carlyle
The actual well seen is ideal.
— Thomas Carlyle
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.
— Thomas Carlyle
No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
— Thomas Carlyle
Is man's civilization only a wrappage, through which the savage nature of him can still burst, infernal as ever?
— Thomas Carlyle
A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
— Thomas Carlyle
As there is no danger of our becoming, any of us, Mahometans (i.e. Muslim), I mean to say all the good of him I justly can ...
— Thomas Carlyle
Skepticism means, not intellectual doubt alone, but moral doubt.
— Thomas Carlyle
No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.
— Thomas Carlyle
Skepticism ... is not intellectual only it is moral also, a chronic atrophy and disease of the whole soul.
— Thomas Carlyle
Before philosophy can teach by Experience, the Philosophy has to be in readiness, the Experience must be gathered and intelligibly recorded.
— Thomas Carlyle
Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure that there is one less scoundrel in the world.
— Thomas Carlyle
Genuine Work alone, what thou workest faithfully, that is eternal, as the Almighty Founder and World-Builder himself.
— Thomas Carlyle
A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.
— Thomas Carlyle
The scandalous bronze-lacquer age of hungry animalisms, spiritual impotences, and mendacities, will have to run its course, till the pit follow it.
— Thomas Carlyle
Ill-health, of body or of mind, is defeat. Health alone is victory. Let all men, if they can manage it, contrive to be healthy!
— Thomas Carlyle
Faith is loyalty to some inspired teacher, some spiritual hero.
— Thomas Carlyle
Eyes bright, with many tears, behind them.
— Thomas Carlyle
Speech that leads not to action, still more that hinders it, is a nuisance on the earth.
— Thomas Carlyle
Men worship the shows of great men; the most disbelieve that there is any reality of great men to worship.
— Thomas Carlyle
The whole universe is but a huge Symbol of god".
— Thomas Carlyle