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Thomas Carlyle quotes: It is now almost my sole rule of life to clear myself of cants and formulas, as of poisonous Nessus shirts. It is now almost my sole rule of life to clear myself of cants and formulas, as of poisonous Nessus shirts.
Thomas Carlyle quotes: Neither in tailoring nor in legislating does man proceed by mere accident. Neither in tailoring nor in legislating does man proceed by mere accident.
Thomas Carlyle quotes: Time has only a relative existence. Time has only a relative existence.
Thomas Carlyle quotes: Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil; for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it. Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil; for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it.
Thomas Carlyle quotes: The person who cannot wonder is but a pair of spectacles behind which there is no eye. The person who cannot wonder is but a pair of spectacles behind which there is no eye.
Thomas Carlyle quotes: Thou fool! Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom; that idle crag thou sittest on is six thousand years of age. 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 quotes: The person who cannot laugh is not only ready for treason, and deceptions, their whole life is already a treason and deception. The person who cannot laugh is not only ready for treason, and deceptions, their whole life is already a treason and deception.
Thomas Carlyle quotes: Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so. Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.
Thomas Carlyle quotes: The history of the world is but a biography of great men. The history of the world is but a biography of great men.
Thomas Carlyle quotes: The crash of the whole solar and stellar systems could only kill you once. The crash of the whole solar and stellar systems could only kill you once.
Thomas Carlyle quotes: Fame is no sure test of merit. Fame is no sure test of merit.
Thomas Carlyle quotes: He who would write heroic poems should make his whole life a heroic poem. He who would write heroic poems should make his whole life a heroic poem.
Thomas Carlyle quotes: Perfect ignorance is quiet, perfect knowledge is quiet; not so the transition from the former to the latter. Perfect ignorance is quiet, perfect knowledge is quiet; not so the transition from the former to the latter.
Thomas Carlyle quotes: Necessity dispenseth with decorum. Necessity dispenseth with decorum.
Thomas Carlyle quotes: The times are very bad. Very well, you are there to make them better. The times are very bad. Very well, you are there to make them better.
Thomas Carlyle quotes: The genuine essence of truth never dies. The genuine essence of truth never dies.
Thomas Carlyle quotes: We have profoundly forgotten everywhere that Cash-payment is not the sole relation of human beings. We have profoundly forgotten everywhere that Cash-payment is not the sole relation of human beings.
Thomas Carlyle quotes: OH, Heaven,it is mysterious,it is awful to considerthat we not only carry a future Ghost within us. butare,in very deed, GHOSTS ! OH, Heaven,it is mysterious,it is awful to consider
that we not only carry a future Ghost within us. but
are,in very deed, GHOSTS !
Thomas Carlyle quotes: God Almighty never created a man half as wise as he looks. God Almighty never created a man half as wise as he looks.
Thomas Carlyle quotes: Not what I Have," continues he, "but what I Do is my Kingdom. Not what I Have," continues he, "but what I Do is my Kingdom.
Thomas Carlyle quotes: Parliament will train you to talk; and above all things to hear, with patience, unlimited quantities of foolish talk. Parliament will train you to talk; and above all things to hear, with patience, unlimited quantities of foolish talk.
Thomas Carlyle quotes: To men in their sleep there is nothing granted in this world. To men in their sleep there is nothing granted in this world.
Thomas Carlyle quotes: The modern majesty consists in work. What a man can do is his greatest ornament, and he always consults his dignity by doing it. The modern majesty consists in work. What a man can do is his greatest ornament, and he always consults his dignity by doing it.
Thomas Carlyle quotes: Teaching school is but another word for sure and not very slow destruction. Teaching school is but another word for sure and not very slow destruction.
Thomas Carlyle quotes: Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong. Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong.
Thomas Carlyle quotes: There is often more spiritual force in a proverb than in whole philosophical systems. There is often more spiritual force in a proverb than in whole philosophical systems.
Thomas Carlyle quotes: A man lives by believing something. A man lives by believing something.
Thomas Carlyle quotes: A mind that has seen, and suffered, and done, speaks to us of what it has tried and conquered. A mind that has seen, and suffered, and done, speaks to us of what it has tried and conquered.
Thomas Carlyle quotes: Once turn to practice, error and truth will no longer consort together. Once turn to practice, error and truth will no longer consort together.
Thomas Carlyle quotes: After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books.
Thomas Carlyle quotes: We have not the love of greatness, but the love of the love of greatness. We have not the love of greatness, but the love of the love of greatness.
Thomas Carlyle quotes: Every man has a coward and hero in his soul. Every man has a coward and hero in his soul.
Thomas Carlyle quotes: One is hardly sensible of fatigue while he marches to music. One is hardly sensible of fatigue while he marches to music.
Thomas Carlyle quotes: I have seen gleams in the face and eyes of the man that have let you look into a higher country. I have seen gleams in the face and eyes of the man that have let you look into a higher country.
Thomas Carlyle quotes: Self-contemplation is infallibly the symptom of disease. Self-contemplation is infallibly the symptom of disease.
Thomas Carlyle quotes: 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. 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.
Thomas Carlyle quotes: No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor. No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor.
Thomas Carlyle quotes: Endurance is patience concentrated. Endurance is patience concentrated.
Thomas Carlyle quotes: And yet without labour there were no ease, no rest, so much as conceivable. And yet without labour there were no ease, no rest, so much as conceivable.
Thomas Carlyle quotes: Great souls are always loyally submissive, reverent to what is over them: only small mean souls are otherwise. Great souls are always loyally submissive, reverent to what is over them: only small mean souls are otherwise.
Thomas Carlyle quotes: At worst, is not this an unjust world, full of nothing but beasts of prey, four-footed or two-footed? At worst, is not this an unjust world, full of nothing but beasts of prey, four-footed or two-footed?
Thomas Carlyle quotes: The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest. The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.
Thomas Carlyle quotes: The All of Things is an infinite conjugation of the verb To do . The All of Things is an infinite conjugation of the verb To do .
Thomas Carlyle quotes: Habit is the deepest law of human nature Habit is the deepest law of human nature
Thomas Carlyle quotes: It is part of my creed that the only poetry is history, could we tell it right. It is part of my creed that the only poetry is history, could we tell it right.
Thomas Carlyle quotes: The English are a dumb people. They can do great acts, but not describe them. The English are a dumb people. They can do great acts, but not describe them.
Thomas Carlyle quotes: Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can. Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can.
Thomas Carlyle quotes: Is not every meanest day the confluence of two eternities? Is not every meanest day the confluence of two eternities?
Thomas Carlyle quotes: It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe. It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe.
Thomas Carlyle quotes: All great peoples are conservative. All great peoples are conservative.
Thomas Carlyle quotes: He who has no vision of eternity has no hold on time. He who has no vision of eternity has no hold on time.
Thomas Carlyle quotes: Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment. Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.
Thomas Carlyle quotes: The spiritual is the parent of the practical. The spiritual is the parent of the practical.
Thomas Carlyle quotes: Government is emphatically a machine: to the discontented a taxing machine, to the contented a machine for securing property. Government is emphatically a machine: to the discontented a taxing machine, to the contented a machine for securing property.
Thomas Carlyle quotes: Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us. Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.
Thomas Carlyle quotes: Work alone is noble. Work alone is noble.
Thomas Carlyle quotes: The greatest event for the world is the arrival of a new and wise person. The greatest event for the world is the arrival of a new and wise person.
Thomas Carlyle quotes: He that can work is born to be king of something. He that can work is born to be king of something.
Thomas Carlyle quotes: Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith. Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.
Thomas Carlyle quotes: Affectation is the product of falsehood. Affectation is the product of falsehood.
Thomas Carlyle quotes: It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see. It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.
Thomas Carlyle quotes: No conquest can ever become permanent which does not show itself beneficial to the conquered as well as to the conquerors. No conquest can ever become permanent which does not show itself beneficial to the conquered as well as to the conquerors.
Thomas Carlyle quotes: I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
Thomas Carlyle quotes: Universal history, the history of what man has accomplished in this world, is at bottom the History of the Great Men who have worked here. Universal history, the history of what man has accomplished in this world, is at bottom the History of the Great Men who have worked here.
Thomas Carlyle quotes: A background of wrath, which can be stirred up to the murderous infernal pitch, does lie in every man. A background of wrath, which can be stirred up to the murderous infernal pitch, does lie in every man.
Thomas Carlyle quotes: A force as of madness in the hands of reason has done all that was ever done in the world. A force as of madness in the hands of reason has done all that was ever done in the world.
Thomas Carlyle quotes: The end of man is action. The end of man is action.
Thomas Carlyle quotes: He that works and does some Poem, not he that merely says one, is worthy of the name of Poet. He that works and does some Poem, not he that merely says one, is worthy of the name of Poet.
Thomas Carlyle quotes: What is all knowledge except recorded experience, and a product of history? What is all knowledge except recorded experience, and a product of history?
Thomas Carlyle quotes: The depth of our despair measures what capability and height of claim we have to hope. The depth of our despair measures what capability and height of claim we have to hope.
Thomas Carlyle quotes: Democracy means despair of finding any heroes to govern you, and contented putting up with the want of them. Democracy means despair of finding any heroes to govern you, and contented putting up with the want of them.
Thomas Carlyle quotes: Woe to him that claims obedience when it is not due; woe to him that refuses it when it is. Woe to him that claims obedience when it is not due; woe to him that refuses it when it is.
Thomas Carlyle quotes: There needs not a great soul to make a hero; there needs a god-created soul which will be true to its origin; that will be a great soul! There needs not a great soul to make a hero; there needs a god-created soul which will be true to its origin; that will be a great soul!
Thomas Carlyle quotes: Heroes, it would seem, exist always and a certain worship of them. Heroes, it would seem, exist always and a certain worship of them.
Thomas Carlyle quotes: Thought is the parent of the deed. Thought is the parent of the deed.
Thomas Carlyle quotes: Variety is the condition of harmony. Variety is the condition of harmony.
Thomas Carlyle quotes: He that has done nothing has known nothing. He that has done nothing has known nothing.
Thomas Carlyle quotes: When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with its fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze. 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 quotes: Faith is loyalty to some inspired teacher, some spiritual hero. Faith is loyalty to some inspired teacher, some spiritual hero.
Thomas Carlyle quotes: Speech that leads not to action, still more that hinders it, is a nuisance on the earth. Speech that leads not to action, still more that hinders it, is a nuisance on the earth.
Thomas Carlyle quotes: What you see, but can't see over is as good as infinite. What you see, but can't see over is as good as infinite.
Thomas Carlyle quotes: Let me have my own way in exactly everything and a sunnier and pleasanter creature does not exist. Let me have my own way in exactly everything and a sunnier and pleasanter creature does not exist.
Thomas Carlyle quotes: The actual well seen is ideal. The actual well seen is ideal.
Thomas Carlyle quotes: For a hundred that can bear adversity, there is hardly one that can bear prosperity. For a hundred that can bear adversity, there is hardly one that can bear prosperity.
Thomas Carlyle quotes: Stop a moment, cease your work, and look around you. Stop a moment, cease your work, and look around you.
Thomas Carlyle quotes: Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct. Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct.
Thomas Carlyle quotes: Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being. Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being.
Thomas Carlyle quotes: The king is the man who can. The king is the man who can.
Thomas Carlyle quotes: The Christian must be consumed by the conviction of the infinite beauty of holiness and the infinite damnability of sin. The Christian must be consumed by the conviction of the infinite beauty of holiness and the infinite damnability of sin.
Thomas Carlyle quotes: All work, even cotton-spinning, is noble; work is alone noble. All work, even cotton-spinning, is noble; work is alone noble.
Thomas Carlyle quotes: The Orator persuades and carries all with him, he knows not how; the Rhetorician can prove that he ought to have persuaded and carried all with him. The Orator persuades and carries all with him, he knows not how; the Rhetorician can prove that he ought to have persuaded and carried all with him.
Thomas Carlyle quotes: Speech is of Time, Silence is of Eternity. Speech is of Time, Silence is of Eternity.
Thomas Carlyle quotes: No good book, or good thing of any sort, shows its best face at first. No good book, or good thing of any sort, shows its best face at first.
Thomas Carlyle quotes: Cash-payment is not the sole nexus of man with man. Cash-payment is not the sole nexus of man with man.
Thomas Carlyle quotes: Speech is too often not the art of concealing thought, but of quite stifling and suspending thought, so that there is none to conceal. Speech is too often not the art of concealing thought, but of quite stifling and suspending thought, so that there is none to conceal.
Thomas Carlyle quotes: Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone. Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.
Thomas Carlyle quotes: Little other than a red tape Talking-machine, and unhappy Bag of Parliamentary Eloquence. Little other than a red tape Talking-machine, and unhappy Bag of Parliamentary Eloquence.
Thomas Carlyle quotes: For man is not the creature and product of Mechanism; but, in a far truer sense, its creator and producer. For man is not the creature and product of Mechanism; but, in a far truer sense, its creator and producer.
Thomas Carlyle quotes: Also, what mountains of dead ashes, wreck and burnt bones, does assiduous pedantry dig up from the past time and name it History. Also, what mountains of dead ashes, wreck and burnt bones, does assiduous pedantry dig up from the past time and name it History.
Thomas Carlyle quotes: The essence of humor is sensibility; warm, tender fellow-feeling with all forms of existence. The essence of humor is sensibility; warm, tender fellow-feeling with all forms of existence.

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