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• The public is anold woman.Let her maunderand mumble.

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  Old Woman

  Thomas Carlyle, Brendan King (1993). “The Sayings of Thomas Carlyle”, p.60, Lulu.com

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• We have profoundly forgotten everywhere that Cash-payment is not the sole relation of human beings.

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  Money, Cash, Forgotten

  Thomas Carlyle (1848). “Past and Present: Chartism, and Sartor Resartus”, p.146

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• The dust of controversy is merely the falsehood flying off.

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  Dust, Flying, Controversy

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• Man is emphatically a proselytizing creature.

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  Nature, Men, Humanity

  Thomas Carlyle (2009). “Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdrockh: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.10, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• In private life I never knew anyone interfere with other people's disputes but he heartily repented of it.

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  Life, People, Disputes

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• No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor.

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  Sports, Integrity, Athlete

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• He that will not work according to his faculty, let him perish according to his necessity: there is no law juster than that.

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  Work, Law, Faculty

  Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (2010). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.132, Cambridge University Press

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• Give us, O give us the man who sings at his work! Be his occupation what it may, he is equal to any of those who follow the same pursuit in silent sullenness. He will do more in the same time . . . he will do it better . . . he will persevere longer. One is scarcely sensible to fatigue while he marches to music. The very stars are said to make harmony as they revolve in their spheres.

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  Time, Stars, Work

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• Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man.

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  Lonely, Loneliness, Men

  Thomas Carlyle (1870). “Past and Present”, p.381

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• Armed Soldier, terrible as Death, relentless as Doom; doing God's judgement on the Enemies of God. It is a phenomenon not of joyful nature; no, but of awful, to be looked at with pious terror and awe.

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  History, Judgement, Soldier

  Thomas Carlyle (1871). “Works”, p.144

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• Tobacco smoke is the one element in which, by our European manners, men can sit silent together without embarrassment, and where no man is bound to speak one word more than he has actually and veritably got to say. Nay, rather every man is admonished and enjoined by the laws of honor, and even of personal ease, to stop short of that point; and at all events to hold his peace and take to his pipe again the instant he has spoken his meaning, if he chance to have any.

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  Men, Law, Smoking

  Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (1903). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle: History of Friedrich II of Prussia, called Frederick the Great”

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• A background of wrath, which can be stirred up to the murderous infernal pitch, does lie in every man.

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  Lying, Anger, Men

  Thomas Carlyle (1857). “Critical and miscellaneous essays, collected and republ”, p.315

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• Man is, and was always, a block-head and dullard; much readier to feel and digest, than to think and consider.

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  Block, Men, Thinking

  Thomas Carlyle, G. B. Tennyson (1984). “Carlyle Reader”, p.163, CUP Archive

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• Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man

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  Laughter, Men, Keys

  Thomas Carlyle (1833). “Fraser's Magazine”, p.592

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• The wise man is but a clever infant, spelling letters from a hieroglyphical prophetic book, the lexicon of which lies in eternity.

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  Inspirational, Wise, Clever

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 617), 1895.

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• Once turn to practice, error and truth will no longer consort together.

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  Errors, Practice, Together

  Thomas Carlyle (1881). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: Collected and Republished”, p.162

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• What the light of your mind, which is the direct inspiration of the Almighty, pronounces incredible, that, in God's name, leave uncredited. At your peril do not try believing that!

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  Believe, Inspiration, Light

  Thomas Carlyle (1857). “Life of Friedrich Schiller (1825): Life of John Sterling (1851)”, p.236

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• Democracy will itself accomplish the salutary universal change from delusive to real, and make a new blessed world of us by and by.

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  Real, Blessed, Democracy

  Thomas Carlyle (1870). “Latter-day Pamphlets”, p.18, London : Chapman and Hall

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• Unity, agreement, is always silent or soft-voiced; it is only discord that loudly proclaims itself.

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  Agreement, Unity, Silent

  Thomas Carlyle (1847). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: Collected and Republished”, p.381

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• Earnestness alone makes life eternity.

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  Eternity, Earnestness

  Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2010). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.157, Cambridge University Press

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• Friend, hast thou considered the "rugged, all-nourishing earth," as Sophocles well names her; how she feeds the sparrow on the housetop, much more her darling man?

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  Men, Names, Earth

  Thomas Carlyle, G. B. Tennyson (1984). “Carlyle Reader”, p.233, CUP Archive

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• All that a university or final highest school. can do for us is still but what the first school began doing--teach us to read. We learn to read in various languages, in various sciences; we learn the alphabet and letters of all manner of books. But the place where we are to get knowledge, even theoretic knowledge, is the books themselves. It depends on what we read, after all manner of professors have done their best for us. The true university of these days is a collection of books.

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  Education, Book, School

  Thomas Carlyle (1852). “On Heroes, Hero-worship, and the Heroic in History: Six Lectures, Reported, with Emendations and Additions”, p.255

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• Great souls are always loyally submissive, reverent to what is over them: only small mean souls are otherwise.

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  Respect, Mean, Soul

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.215, Lulu.com

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• Whose school-hours are all the days and nights of our existence.

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  Education, School, Night

  Thomas Carlyle (1857). “Life of Friedrich Schiller (1825): Life of John Sterling (1851)”, p.210

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• Let Time and Chance combine, combine!
  Let Time and Chance combine!
  The fairest love from heaven above,
  That love of yours was mine,
  My Dear!
  That love of yours was mine.

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  Life, Heaven, Chance

  Thomas Carlyle (1857). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays”, p.473

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