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• The sincere alone can recognize sincerity.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Sincerity, Sincere

  Thomas Carlyle (2016). “Heroes and Hero Worship: The Historian”, p.193, 北戴河出版

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• True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Love, Cute, Happiness

  Thomas Carlyle, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Swasey McKean, Charles Stearns Wheeler (1838). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays”, p.18

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• Why did not somebody teach me the constellations, and make me at home in the starry heavens, which are always overhead, and which I don't half know to this day?

  Thomas Carlyle

  Home, Science, Heaven

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• He that has a secret should not only hide it, but hide that he has it to hide.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Secret, Luck, Should

  "The French Revolution: The Historian".

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• A force as of madness in the hands of reason has done all that was ever done in the world.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Funny, Hands, Insanity

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• The deadliest sin were the consciousness of no sin

  Thomas Carlyle

  Consciousness, Sin

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• Lord Bacon could as easily have created the planets as he could have written Hamlet.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Lord, Planets, Written

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• Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Art, Silence, Speech

  Thomas Carlyle, G. B. Tennyson (1984). “Carlyle Reader”, p.20, CUP Archive

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• A judicious man looks at Statistics, not to "get knowledge, but to save himself from having ignorance foisted 'on him".

  Thomas Carlyle

  Ignorance, Men, Use

  "Past and Present: Chartism".

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• Hunger whets everything, especially Suspicion and Indignation.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Hunger, Suspicion, Indignation

  Thomas Carlyle (1837). “Collected Works”, p.304

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• After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Book, Done, Professors

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• There must be a new world if there is to be any world at all!... These days of universal death must be days of universal new birth, if the ruin is not to be total and final! It is Time to make the dullest man consider; and ask himself, Whence he came? Whither he is bound?

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Finals, World

  Thomas Carlyle (1870). “Latter-day Pamphlets”, p.4, London : Chapman and Hall

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• The mathematics of high achievement

  Thomas Carlyle

  Achievement, Mathematics

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• Properly speaking, all true work is religion.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Work, Religion

  Thomas Carlyle (1843). “Past and Present”, p.115

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• Thought once awakened does not again slumber; unfolds itself into a System of Thought; grows, in man after man, generation after generation, - till its full stature is reached, and such System of Thought can grow no farther, but must give place to another.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Science, Men, Thinking

  Thomas Carlyle (1840). “Works”, p.20

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• If there be not a religious element in the relations of men, such relations are miserable and doomed to ruin.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Religious, Men, Religion

  Letter to Thomas Chalmers, October 11, 1841.

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• Look around you. Your world-hosts are all in mutiny, in confusion, destitution; on the eve of fiery wreck and madness! They will not march farther for you, on the sixpence a day and supply-demand principle; they will not; nor ought they, nor can they. Ye shall reduce them to order, begin reducing them. to order, to just subordination; noble loyalty in return for noble guidance. Their souls are driven nigh mad; let yours be sane and ever saner.

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  Loyalty, Order, Mad

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• Consider in fact, a body of six hundred and fifty-eight miscellaneous persons, set to consult about "business," with twenty-seven millions, mostly fools, assiduously listening to them, and checking and criticising them. Was there ever, since the world began, will there ever be till the world end, any "business" accomplished in these circumstances?

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  Eight, Government, Listening

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.637, Lulu.com

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• The past is all holy to us; the dead are all holy; even they that were wicked when alive.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Time, Past, Wicked

  Thomas Carlyle (1881). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: Collected and Republished”, p.45

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• Just in ratio as knowledge increases, faith diminishes.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Knowledge, Ratios, Increase

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• In books lies the soul of the whole Past Time; the articulate audible voice of the Past, when the body and material substance of it has altogether vanished like a dream.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Dream, Time, Lying

  'On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic' (1841) 'The Hero as Man of Letters'

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• With union grounded on falsehood and ordering us to speak and act lies, we will not have anything to do. Peace? A brutal lethargy is peaceable; the noisome is peaceable. We hope for a living peace, not a dead one!

  Thomas Carlyle

  Peace, Lying, Unions

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.185, Lulu.com

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• Not our Logical, Mensurative faculty, but our Imaginative one is King over us; I might say, Priest and Prophet to lead us heavenward; or Magician and Wizard to lead us hellward.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Kings, War, Heaven

  "Sartor Resartus: The Historian".

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• The meaning of song goes deep. Who in logical words can explain the effect music has on us? A kind of inarticulate, unfathomable speech, which leads us to the edge of the infinite, and lets us for a moment gaze into that!

  Thomas Carlyle

  Music, Song, Speech

  Thomas Carlyle (1846). “On Heroes, Hero-worship, & the Heroic in History: Six Lectures ; Reported, with Emendations and Additions”, p.74

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• Well might the ancients make silence a god; for it is the element of all godhood, infinitude, or transcendental greatness,--at once the source and the ocean wherein all such begins and ends.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Ocean, Greatness, Silence

  Thomas Carlyle (1872). “Works”, p.15

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