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• What is nature? Art thou not the living government of God? O Heaven, is it in very deed He then that ever speaks through thee, that lives and loves in thee, that lives and loves in me?

  Thomas Carlyle

  Art, Life And Love, Government

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• Love not Pleasure; love God.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Pleasure Love, God Love, Pleasure

  Thomas Carlyle, G. B. Tennyson (1984). “Carlyle Reader”, p.26, CUP Archive

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• Philosophy dwells aloft in the Temple of Science, the divinity of its inmost shrine; her dictates descend among men, but she herself descends not : whoso would behold her must climb with long and laborious effort, nay, still linger in the forecourt, till manifold trial have proved him worthy of admission into the interior solemnities.

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  Philosophy, Philosophical, Science

  Thomas Carlyle (1864). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays ...”, p.32

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• Such is the world. Understand it, despise it, love it; cheerfully hold on thy way through it, with thy eye on highest loadstars!

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  Eye, World, Way

  Thomas Carlyle (1848). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays”, p.78

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• Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Time, Youth, Glad

  Thomas Carlyle (1825). “Carlyle's Works ...”

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• Speech is great, but silence is greater.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Silence, Speech, Silence Is

  Thomas Carlyle (1841). “On Heroes, Hero-Worship,&the Heroic in History. Six Lectures. Reported with emendations and additions”, p.175

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• I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.

  Thomas Carlyle

  God, Reality, Devil

  Letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson, April 29, 1836

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• Good Christian people, here lies for you an inestimable loan; take all heed thereof, in all carefulness, employ it: with high recompense, or else with heavy penalty, will it one day be required back.

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  Christian, Children, Lying

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• The great law of culture is, Let each become all that he was created capable of being; expand, if possible, to his full growth; resisting all impediments, casting off all foreign, especially all noxious adhesions, and show himself at length in his own shape and stature be these what they may.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Casting Off, Law, Growth

  Thomas Carlyle (1864). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays ...”, p.13

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• Custom doth make dotards of us all.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Customs

  Thomas Carlyle (1869). “Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh : in Three Books”, p.250

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• The whole past is the procession of the present.

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  Past, History, Whole

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• Alas! while the body stands so broad and brawny, must the soul lie blinded, dwarfed, stupefied, almost annihilated? Alas! this was, too, a breath of God, bestowed in heaven, but on earth never to be unfolded!

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  Lying, Heaven, Soul

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

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• Silence, the great Empire of Silence: higher than all stars; deeper than the Kingdom of Death! It alone is great; all else is small.

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  Stars, Silence, Kingdoms

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• Whoso has sixpence is sovereign (to the length of sixpence) over all men; commands cooks to feed him, philosophers to teach him, kings to mount guard over him,to the length of sixpence.

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  Kings, Men, Sovereign

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

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• Man always worships something; always he sees the Infinite shadowed forth in something finite; and indeed can and must so see it in any finite thing, once tempt him well to fix his eyes thereon.

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  Eye, Men, Worship

  Thomas Carlyle (1881). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: Collected and Republished”, p.116

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• I know so little about any history. How little do I know even about the history of myself.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Littles, Knows

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• There is but one thing without honor, smitten with eternal barrenness, inability to do or to be,-insincerity, unbelief.

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  Infidelity, Honor, Inability

  Thomas Carlyle (1884). “Miscellaneous essays”

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• A battle is a terrible conjugation of the verb to kill: I kill, thou killest, he kills, we kill, they kill, all kill.

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  War, Battle, Verbs

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• 'Genius' which means transcendent capacity of taking trouble, first of all.

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  Mean, Genius, Statistics

  History of Frederick the Great bk. 4, ch. 3 (1858 - 1865).

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• Nature is the time-vesture of God that reveals Him to the wise, and hides him from the foolish.

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  Wise, Environmental, Foolish

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• The actual well seen is ideal.

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  Idealism, Wells, Ideals

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• Wealth of a man is the number of things which he loves and blesses which he is loved and blessed by.

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  Blessed, Men, Numbers

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.455, Lulu.com

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• Thought, true labor of any kind, highest virtue itself, is it not the daughter of Pain?

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  Daughter, Pain, Creative

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.154, Lulu.com

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• Pin your faith to no ones sleeves, haven't you two eyes of your own.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Eye, Two, Independence

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• We have not the love of greatness, but the love of the love of greatness.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Greatness

  Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (2010). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.23, Cambridge University Press

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