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• Piety does not mean that a man should make a sour face about things, and refuse to enjoy in moderation what his Maker has given.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Mean, Men, Doe

  Thomas Carlyle (1866). “On the Choice of Books. The inaugural address of Thomas Carlyle, Lord Rector of the University of Edinburgh. Reprinted from “the Times,” with additional articles, a memoir of the author, etc”, p.30

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• How, without clothes, could we possess the master organ, soul's seat and true pineal gland of the body social--I mean a purse?

  Thomas Carlyle

  Mean, Clothes, Soul

  Thomas Carlyle, Rodger L. Tarr, Mark Engel (2000). “Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh in Three Books”, p.50, Univ of California Press

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• Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such; it is an accident, not a property of man.

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  Men, May, Tests

  Thomas Carlyle (1864). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays ...”, p.75

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• We arc the miracle of miracles, the great inscrutable mystery of God.

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  Miracle, Mystery, Arcs

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• Except by name, Jean Paul Friedrich Richter is little known out of Germany. The only thing connected with him, we think, that has reached this country is his saying,-imported by Madame de Staël, and thankfully pocketed by most newspaper critics,-"Providence has given to the French the empire of the land; to the English that of the sea; to the Germans that of-the air!" Richter: German humorist & prose writer.

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  Country, Thinking, Air

  Thomas Carlyle (1872). “Works”, p.5

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• Hardened round us, encasing wholly every notion we form is a wrapping of traditions, hearsay's, and mere words.

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  Tradition, Form, Notion

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• History is philosophy teaching by experience.

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  Philosophy, Teaching

  1838 Critical and Miscellaneous Essays,'History'.

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• There are female dandies as well as clothes-wearing men; and the former are as objectionable as the latter.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Fashion, Men, Clothes

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• The person who cannot laugh is not only ready for treason, and deceptions, their whole life is already a treason and deception.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Laughter, Laughing, Deception

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• Men are grown mechanical in head and in the heart, as well as in the hand. They have lost faith in individual endeavour, and in natural force of any kind.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Heart, Men, Hands

  1829 Signs of the Times.

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• He who takes not counsel of the Unseen and Silent, from him will never come real visibility and speech.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Real, Unseen, Speech

  Thomas Carlyle (1840). “Works”

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• Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with; as if, observes our author himself, any originality but our own could be expected to content us! In fact all strange thing are apt, without fault of theirs, to estrange us at first view, and unhappily scarcely anything is perfectly plain, but what is also perfectly common.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Views, Firsts, Faults

  Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (2010). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.11, Cambridge University Press

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• But deepest of all illusory Appearances, for hiding Wonder, as for many other ends, are your two grand fundamental world-enveloping Appearances, SPACE and TIME. These, as spun and woven for us from before Birth itself, to clothe our celestial ME for dwelling here, and yet to blind it, lie all-embracing, as the universal canvas, or warp and woof, whereby all minor Illusions, in this Phantasm Existence, weave and paint themselves. In vain, while here on Earth, shall you endeavor to strip them off; you can, at best, but rend them asunder for moments, and look through.

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  Lying, Two, Dwelling

  Thomas Carlyle, G. B. Tennyson (1984). “Carlyle Reader”, p.304, CUP Archive

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• Skepticism, as I said, is not intellectual only; it is moral also; a chronic atrophy and disease of the whole soul. A man lives by believing something; not by debating and arguing about many things. A sad case for him when all that he can manage to believe is something he can button in his pocket, and with one or the other organ eat and digest! Lower than that he will not get.

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  Believe, Men, Soul

  Thomas Carlyle, Edwin Markham (1842). “On Heroes, Hero-worship, and the Heroic in History: Six Lectures, Reported, with Emendations and Additions”, p.215

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• Is man’s civilization only a wrappage, through which the savage nature of him can still burst, infernal as ever?

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  Men, Civilization, Savages

  Thomas Carlyle (1871). “The French revolution. A history”, p.210

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• As there is no danger of our becoming, any of us, Mahometans (i.e. Muslim), I mean to say all the good of him I justly can.

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  Islamic, Mean, Becoming

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• Prayer is and remains always a native and deepest impulse of the soul of man.

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  Prayer, Men, Soul

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• A lie should be trampled on and extinguished wherever found. I am for fumigating the atmosphere when I suspect that falsehood, like pestilence, breathes around me.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Lying, Atmosphere, Pestilence

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• A heavenly awe overshadowed and encompassed, as it still ought, and must, all earthly business whatsoever.

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  Awe, Heavenly, Stills

  Thomas Carlyle (1843). “Past and Present”, p.67

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• Our works are the mirror wherein the spirit first sees its natural lineaments. Hence, too, the folly of that impossible precept, Know theyself; till it be translated into this partially possible one, know what thou canst work at.

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  Life, Success, Work

  Thomas Carlyle, Rodger L. Tarr, Mark Engel (2000). “Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh in Three Books”, p.123, Univ of California Press

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• It is the feeling of injustice that is insupportable to all men.

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  Men, Justice, Feelings

  Chartism ch. 5 (1839)

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• It is part of my creed that the only poetry is history, could we tell it right.

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  History, Creeds, Poetry Is

  Thomas Carlyle (2007). “The French Revolution: A History”, p.17, Modern Library

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• Pain was not given thee merely to be miserable under; learn from it, turn it to account.

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  Pain, Miserable, Given

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• We have not read an author till we have seen his object, whatever it may be, as he saw it.

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  Reading, May, Saws

  Thomas Carlyle (1864). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays ...”, p.57

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• Man's unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite.

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  Happiness, Greatness, Men

  'Sartor Resartus' (1834) bk. 2, ch. 9

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