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• Heroism is the divine relation which, in all times, unites a great man to other men.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Time, Hero, Men

  Thomas Carlyle (1840). “On Heroes, Hero-worship and the Heroic in History”, p.4

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• The first sin in our universe was Lucifer's self conceit.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Self, Firsts, Sin

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• Every noble crown is, and on Earth will forever be, a crown of thorns.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Forever, Noble, Crowns

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.384, Lulu.com

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• History is a mighty dramos, enacted upon the theatre of times, with suns for lamps and eternity for a background.

  Thomas Carlyle

  History, Historical, Theatre

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• Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Men

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• Wonder is the basis of worship.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Worship, Wonder, Bases

  Thomas Carlyle (1871). “The Collected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.370

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• To know, to get into the truth of anything, is ever a mystic art, of which the best logic's can but babble on the surface.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Art, Spirituality, Logic

  Thomas Carlyle (1864). “Sartor Resartus”, p.227

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• Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Past, Men, Goodness

  Thomas Carlyle (1842). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: Collected and Republished”, p.320

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• No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.

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  Inspirational, Believe, Iron

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• Music is well said to be the speech of angels; in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine. It brings us near to the infinite.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Inspiring, Music, Angel

  Thomas Carlyle (1857). “Critical & Miscellaneous Essays: Collected & Republished”, p.325

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• Success in life, in anything, depends upon the number of persons that one can make himself agreeable to.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Inspirational, Numbers, Success In Life

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• Histories are a kind of distilled newspapers.

  Thomas Carlyle

  History, Kind, Newspapers

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• All work is as seed sown; it grows and spreads, and sows itself anew.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Work, Grows, Spread

  Thomas Carlyle (1872). “Works”, p.118

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• Let a man try faithfully, manfully to be right; he will grow daily more and more right. It is at bottom the condition on which all men have to cultivate themselves.

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  Men, Trying, Grows

  "New letters of Thomas Carlyle".

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• The cut of a garment speaks of intellect and talent and the color of temperament and heart.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Heart, Cutting, Color

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• Infinite is the help man can yield to man.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Yield, Brotherhood

  Thomas Carlyle (1840). “Sartor Reartus: The Life and Opinions of Her Teufelsdrockh : in Three Books”, p.301

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• Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together; that at length they may emerge, full-formed and majestic, into the daylight of Life, which they are thenceforth to rule.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Fashion, Silence, Together

  "Sartor Resartus" by Thomas Carlyle, Book III, (Ch. 3), 1833-1834.

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• Rich as we are in biography, a well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one; and there are certainly many more men whose history deserves to be recorded than persons willing and able to record it.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Records, Biographies

  Thomas Carlyle (1864). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays ...”, p.7

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• Show me the man you honor; I know by that symptom, better than by any other, what kind of man you yourself are. For you show me there what your ideal of manhood is; what kind of man you long inexpressibly to be.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Long, Honor

  Thomas Carlyle (1897). “History of Friedrich the Second: Called Frederick the Great”

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• For, strictly considered, what is all Knowledge too but recorded Experience, and a product of History; of which, therefore, Reasoning and Belief, no less than Action and Passion, are essential materials?

  Thomas Carlyle

  History, Products

  "The Works of Thomas Carlyle".

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• A mind that has seen, and suffered, and done, speaks to us of what it has tried and conquered.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Mind, Done, Speak

  1824 Goethe, vol.4,'Introduction to German Romance'.

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• I never heard tell of any clever man that came of entirely stupid people.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Clever, Stupid, Men

  Thomas Carlyle (1872). “Works”, p.181

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• Happy season of childhood! Kind Nature, that art to all a bountiful mother; that visitest the poor man's hut With auroral radiance; and for thy nursling hast provided a soft swathing of love and infinite hope wherein he waxes and slumbers, danced round by sweetest dreams!

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  Mother, Dream, Art

  Thomas Carlyle (2016). “Sartor Resartus: The Historian”, p.66, 北戴河出版

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• Laissez-faire, supply and demand-one begins to be weary of all that. Leave all to egotism, to ravenous greed of money, of pleasure, of applause-it is the gospel of despair.

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  Greed, Despair, Demand

  Thomas Carlyle (1858). “Chartism: Past and Present. By Thomas Carlyle”, p.214

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• We are to remember what an umpire Nature is; what a greatness, composure of depth and tolerance there is in her. You take wheat to cast into the Earth's bosom; your wheat may be mixed with chaff, chopped straw, barn-sweepings, dust and all imaginable rubbish; no matter: you cast it into the kind just Earth; she grows the wheat, - the whole rubbish she silently absorbs, shrouds it in, says nothing of the rubbish.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Greatness, Umpires, Dust

  Thomas Carlyle (1840). “On Heroes, Hero-worship and the Heroic in History”, p.73, CUP Archive

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