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• The word of Mohammad is a voice direct from nature's own heart - all else is wind in comparison.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Heart, Wind, Voice

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• Manhood begins when we have in any way made truce with Necessity; begins even when we have surrendered to Necessity, as the most part only do; but begins joyfully and hopefully only when we have reconciled ourselves to Necessity; and thus, in reality, triumphed over it, and felt that in Necessity we are free.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Reality, Way, Made

  Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (2010). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.295, Cambridge University Press

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• Man is a tool-using animal.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Animal, Men, Tools

  'Sartor Resartus' (1834) bk. 1, ch. 5

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• Show me the person you honor, for I know better by that the kind of person you are. For you show me what your idea of humanity is.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Ideas, Humanity, Honor

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• If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of the doubt.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Girl, Sarcastic, Humorous

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• Wise man was he who counselled that speculation should have free course, and look fearlessly towards all the thirty-two points of the compass, whithersoever and howsoever it listed.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Wise, Men, Should Have

  Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (2010). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.4, Cambridge University Press

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• Lies exist only to be extinguished.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Lying

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• "Love is not altogether a Delirium," says he elsewhere; "yet has it many points in common therewith."

  Thomas Carlyle

  Love, Delirium Tremens, Common

  "Sartor Resartus: The Historian".

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• There are depths in man that go to the lowest hell, and heights that reach the highest heaven, for are not both heaven and hell made out of him, everlasting miracle and mystery that he is.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Miracle, Heaven

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• The leafy blossoming present time springs from the whole past, remembered and unrememberable.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Spring, Past, Remembrance

  Oliver Cromwell, Thomas Carlyle (1859). “Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches: Including the Supplement to the Past Edition : with Elucidations”, p.9

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• Providence has given to the French the empire of the land, to the English that of the sea, to the Germans that of--the air!

  Thomas Carlyle

  Air, Sea, Land

  Thomas Carlyle (1864). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays ...”, p.8

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• What an enormous magnifier is tradition! How a thing grows in the human memory and in the human imagination, when love, worship, and all that lies in the human heart, is there to encourage it

  Thomas Carlyle

  Memories, Lying, Heart

  Thomas Carlyle (1841). “On Heroes, Hero-Worship,&the Heroic in History. Six Lectures. Reported with emendations and additions”, p.41

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• I should say sincerity, a deep, great, genuine sincerity, is the first characteristic of all men in any way heroic.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Way, Firsts

  Thomas Carlyle (1872). “On Heroes, Hero-worship and the Heroic in History”, p.42

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• One is weary of hearing about the omnipotence of money. I will say rather that, for a genuine man, it is not evil to be poor.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Omnipotence, Evil

  Thomas Carlyle (1871). “The Collected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.309

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• All greatness is unconscious, or it is little and naught.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Greatness, Littles, Unconscious

  Thomas Carlyle (1857). “Critical and miscellaneous essays, collected and republ”, p.146

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• There is a perennial nobleness, and even sacredness, in work. Were he never so benighted, forgetful of his high calling, there is always hope in a man that actually and earnestly works: in idleness alone there is perpetual despair.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Work, Men, Despair

  Thomas Carlyle (1872). “Past and Present”, p.168

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• Superstition! that horrid incubus which dwelt in darkness, shunning the light, with all its racks, and poison chalices, and foul sleeping draughts, is passing away without return. Religion cannot pass away. The burning of a little straw may hide the stars of the sky; but the stars are there and will reappear.

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  Stars, Sleep, Light

  Thomas Carlyle (1876). “The Carlyle Anthology”, p.253

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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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• Science has done much for us; but it is a poor science that would hide from us the great deep sacred infinitude of Nescience, on which all science swims as a mere superficial film.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Science, Swim, Done

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.96, Lulu.com

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• The suffering man ought really to consume his own smoke; there is no good in emitting smoke till you have made it into fire.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Fire, Suffering

  Thomas Carlyle (1898). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.184

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• All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Lying, Book, Magic

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

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• He is wise who can instruct us and assist us in the business of virtuous living.

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  Wise, Teaching, Virtuous

  Thomas Carlyle (1864). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays ...”, p.237

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• The stifled hum of midnight, when traffic has lain down to rest, and the chariot wheels of Vanity, still rolling here and there through distant streets, are bearing her to halls roofed in and lighted to the due pitch for her; and only vice and misery, to prowl or to moan like night birds, are abroad.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Night, Vanity, Bird

  Thomas Carlyle (1869). “Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh : in Three Books”, p.21

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• Produce, produce! Were it but the pitifulest, infinitesimal fraction of a product, produce it in God's name. 'Tis the utmost thou hast in thee? Out with it then! Up, up! Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy whole might.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Hands, Names, Might

  Thomas Carlyle (1846). “On Heroes, Hero-worship, & the Heroic in History: Six Lectures ; Reported, with Emendations and Additions”

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• Poetry is the attempt which man makes to render his existence harmonious.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Poetry, Existence

  Thomas Carlyle (1857). “Critical & Miscellaneous Essays: Collected & Republished”, p.315

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