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• Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong.

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  Science, Feelings, Artistic

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• Debt is a bottomless sea.

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  Sea, Debt, Borrowing

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• The Present is the living sum-total of the whole Past.

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  Past, History, Whole

  Thomas Carlyle, G. B. Tennyson (1984). “Carlyle Reader”, p.99, CUP Archive

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• The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.

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  Funny, Humor, Blue

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• Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.

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  Kings, World, Persuasion

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• The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

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  Inspirational, Courage, Men

  Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (2010). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.123, Cambridge University Press

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• It is a fact which escapes no one, that, generally speaking, whoso is acquainted with his worth has but a little stock to cultivate acquaintance with.

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  Littles, Facts, Conceit

  Thomas Carlyle (1872). “Works”, p.7

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• A true delineation of the smallest man is capable of interesting the greatest man.

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  Men, Interesting, Smallest

  Thomas Carlyle (1851). “Works”, p.6

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• The great silent man! Looking round on the noisy inanity of the world,--words with little meaning, actions with little worth,--one loves to reflect on the great Empire of Silence.

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  Men, Silence, World

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.246, Lulu.com

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• History is the essence of innumerable biographies.

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  Essence, History, Legacy

  Critical and Miscellaneous Essays "On History" (1838) See Thomas Carlyle 12

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• The fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself.

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  Fear, Doubt, Unbelief

  Thomas Carlyle (1831). “Sartor Resartus: The life and opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh in three books: By Thomas Carlyle”, p.114

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• O poor mortals, how ye make this earth bitter for each other.

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  Earth, Bitter, Poor

  Thomas Carlyle (1838). “The French Revolution: A History”, p.177

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• Burke said there were Three Estates in Parliament; but, in the Reporter's gallery yonder, there sat a fourth estate more important far than they all.

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  Important, Three, Journalism

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

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• The universe is but one vast Symbol of God.

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  Diversity, Soul, Symbols

  Thomas Carlyle (1831). “Sartor Resartus: The life and opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh in three books: By Thomas Carlyle”, p.152

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• At worst, is not this an unjust world, full of nothing but beasts of prey, four-footed or two-footed?

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  Two, World, Four

  Thomas Carlyle, Chris Vanden Bossche (2002). “Historical Essays”, p.68, Univ of California Press

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• All reform except a moral one will prove unavailing.

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  Change, Reform, Moral

  1872 Critical and Miscellaneous Essays,'Corn Law Rhymes'.

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• It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.

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  Hope, People, Politics

  Thomas Carlyle, Brendan King (1993). “The Sayings of Thomas Carlyle”, p.36, Lulu.com

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• The choking, sweltering, deadly, and killing rule of no rule; the consecration of cupidity and braying of folly, and dim stupidity and baseness, in most of the affairs of men. Slopshirts attainable three-halfpence cheaper by the ruin of living bodies and immortal souls.

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  Men, Stupidity, Soul

  Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (2010). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.29, Cambridge University Press

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• Battles, in these ages, are transacted by mechanism; with the slightest possible development of human individuality or spontaneity; men now even die, and kill one another, in an artificial manner.

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  War, Men, Technology

  Thomas Carlyle, G. B. Tennyson (1984). “Carlyle Reader”, p.356, CUP Archive

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• Worship is transcendent wonder.

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  Worship, Wonder, Transcendent

  'On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic' (1841) 'The Hero as Divinity'

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• The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.

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  Gun, Civilization, Religion

  Critical and Miscellaneous Essays "The State of German Literature" (1838)

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• The true university of these days is a collection of books.

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  Book, Library, These Days

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

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• The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious.

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  Jesus, Greatness, Differences

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• The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity.

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  Heart, Men, Vanity

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• Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.

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  Summer, Nature, Spring

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.73, Lulu.com

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