Thomas Carlyle Quotes About Running

Quotes about: Running

• 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.

• I think Scandinavian Paganism, to us here, is more interesting than any other. It is, for one thing, the latest; it continued in these regions of Europe till the eleventh century; 800 years ago the Norwegians were still worshipers of Odin. It is interesting also as the creed of our fathers; the men whose blood still runs in our veins, whom doubtless we still resemble in so many ways.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Running, Father, Men

• A thinking man is the worst enemy the Prince of Darkness can have; every time such an one announces himself, I doubt not there runs a shudder through the nether empire; and new emissaries are trained with new tactics, to, if possible, entrap and hoodwink and handcuff him.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Running, Men, Thinking

  Thomas Carlyle (1834). “Fraser's Magazine”, p.191

• In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Running, Witty, Government

  Thomas Carlyle (1843). “Past and Present”, p.149

• Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness. He has a work, a life-purpose; he has found it, and will follow it! How, as a free-flowing channel, dug and torn by noble force through the sour mudswamp of one's existence, like an ever-deepening river there, it runs and flows

  Thomas Carlyle

  Running, Work, Blessed

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.396, Lulu.com

• 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

  Running, Spiritual, Age

• Professors of the Dismal Science, I perceive the length of your tether is now pretty well run; and I must request you to talk a little lower in the future.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Running, Littles, Length

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