Thomas Carlyle Quotes - Page 14

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• No good book or good thing of any kind shows it best face at first. No the most common quality of in a true work of art that has excellence and depth, is that at first sight it produces a certain disappointment.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Art, Disappointment, Book

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• That there should one man die ignorant who had capacity for knowledge, this I call a tragedy.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Ignorance, Knowledge, Men

  Thomas Carlyle (1864). “Sartor Resartus”, p.140

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• My books are friends that never fail me.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Book, Failing

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• Oblivion is the dark page, whereon Memory writes her light-beam characters, and makes them legible; were it all light, nothing could be read there, any more than if it were all darkness.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Memories, Writing, Character

  Thomas Carlyle, Chris Vanden Bossche (2002). “Historical Essays”, p.20, Univ of California Press

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• We have our little theory on all human and divine things. Poetry, the workings of genius itself, which, in all times, with one or another meaning, has been called Inspiration, and held to be mysterious and inscrutable, is no longer without its scientific exposition. The building of the lofty rhyme is like any other masonry or bricklaying: we have theories of its rise, height, decline and fall -- which latter, it would seem, is now near, among all people.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Fall, Inspiration, People

  Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (2010). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.76, Cambridge University Press

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• 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

  Book, Men, Wonderful

  Thomas Carlyle (1846). “On Heroes, Hero-worship, & the Heroic in History: Six Lectures ; Reported, with Emendations and Additions”, p.147

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• No violent extreme endures.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Violence, Violent, Endure

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• When we can drain the Ocean into mill-ponds, and bottle up the Force of Gravity, to be sold by retail, in gas jars; then may we hope to comprehend the infinitudes of man's soul under formulas of Profit and Loss; and rule over this too, as over a patent engine, by checks, and valves, and balances.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Ocean, Loss, Technology

  Thomas Carlyle, G. B. Tennyson (1984). “Carlyle Reader”, p.44, CUP Archive

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• 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

  Men, History, World

  Thomas Carlyle (1840). “On Heroes, Hero-worship and the Heroic in History”, p.3, CUP Archive

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• Not what I have, but what I do is my kingdom.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Growth, Charity, Kingdoms

  Thomas Carlyle (1894). “The Carlyle reader, selections ed. by J. Wood”

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• Nakedness, hunger, distress of all kinds, death itself have been cheerfully suffered, when the heart was right. It is the feeling of injustice that is insupportable to all men.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Heart, Men, Feelings

  Chartism ch. 5 (1839)

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• He that can work is born to be king of something.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Kings, Work, Birth

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.41, Lulu.com

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• True friends, like ivy and the wall Both stand together, and together fall.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Loyalty, Wall, True Friend

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• The world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Mediocrity, World, Republic

  Thomas Carlyle, Brendan King (1993). “The Sayings of Thomas Carlyle”, p.57, Lulu.com

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• 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

  Oratory, Prove, Orators

  Thomas Carlyle (1881). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: Collected and Republished”, p.5

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• The press is the fourth estate of the realm.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Journalism, Estates, Realms

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• Love is ever the beginning of knowledge as fire is of light.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Life, Knowledge, Love Is

  Thomas Carlyle (1842). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: Collected and Republished”, p.123

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• Are we not Spirits, that are shaped into a body, into an Appearance; and that fade away again into air and Invisibility? 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! These Limbs, whence had we them; this stormy Force; this life-blood with its burning Passion? They are dust and shadow; a Shadow-system gathered round our Me; wherein, through some moments or years, the Divine Essence is to be revealed in the Flesh.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Passion, Years, Essence

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• What are your Axioms, and Categories, and Systems, and Aphorisms? Words, words.... Be not the slave of Words.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Language, Slave, Aphorism

  Thomas Carlyle (1831). “Sartor Resartus: The life and opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh in three books: By Thomas Carlyle”, p.36

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• Painful for a person is rebellious independence, only in loving companionship with his associates does a person feel safe: Only in reverently bowing down before the higher does a person feel exalted.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Humility, Independence, Doe

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• Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Hard Work, Suffering, Reform

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• The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Business, Men, Water

  Thomas Carlyle (1857). “Critical and miscellaneous essays, collected and republ”, p.206

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• This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle; wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Science, Thinking, Magic In The World

  Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (2010). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.8, Cambridge University Press

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• Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Culture, Process, Capability

  "Speech from the opening ceremony of the 2016 Edinburgh International Culture Summit" by Ken Macintosh, www.kenmacintosh.scot. September 02, 2016.

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• The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Happiness, Laughter, Brave Person

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