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• But the whim we have of happiness is somewhat thus. By certain valuations, and averages, of our own striking, we come upon some sort of average terrestrial lot; this we fancy belongs to us by nature, and of indefeasible rights. It is simple payment of our wages, of our deserts; requires neither thanks nor complaint. Foolish soul! What act of legislature was there that thou shouldst be happy? A little while ago thou hadst no right to be at all.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Happiness, Simple, Rights

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• The true eye for talent presupposes the true reverence for it.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Eye, Talent, Reverence

  Thomas Carlyle (1858). “Chartism: Past and Present. By Thomas Carlyle”, p.94

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• Men are to be guided only by their self-interests. Good government is a good balancing of these; and, except a keen eye and appetite for self-interest, requires no virtue in any quarter. To both parties it is emphatically a machine: to the discontented, a taxing-machine; to the contented, a machine for securing property. Its duties and its faults are not those of a father, but of an active parish-constable.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Father, Party, Eye

  Thomas Carlyle, A.H.R. Ball (2014). “Selections from Carlyle”, p.111, Cambridge University Press

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• A very sea of thought; neither calm nor clear, if you will, yet wherein the toughest pearl-diver may dive to his utmost depth, and return not only with sea-wreck but with true orients.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Sea, Depth, Wrecks

  Thomas Carlyle, G. B. Tennyson (1984). “Carlyle Reader”, p.129, CUP Archive

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• Thought will not work except in silence.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Silence

  Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (2010). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.174, Cambridge University Press

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• O Time! Time! how it brings forth and devours! And the roaring flood of existence rushes on forever similar, forever changing!

  Thomas Carlyle

  Time, Forever, Roaring

  Thomas Carlyle, Charles Richard Sanders, Jane Welsh Carlyle (1973). “The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle: October 1833-december 1834”, Duke University Press Books

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• Clever men are good, but they are not the best.

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  Inspirational, Clever, Men

  Thomas Carlyle, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Swasey McKean, Charles Stearns Wheeler (1838). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays”, p.278

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• Great men are the modelers, patterns, and in a wide sense creators, of whatsoever the general mass of men contrived to do and attain.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Inspirational, Men, Patterns

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.91, Lulu.com

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• Reality, if rightly interpreted, is grander than fiction.

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  Reality, Fiction, Ifs

  Thomas Carlyle, A.H.R. Ball (2014). “The French Revolution”, p.13, Cambridge University Press

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• Might and right do differ frightfully from hour to hour, but then centuries to try it in, they are found to be identical.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Trying, Vices, Might

  Thomas Carlyle (1872). “Works”, p.158

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• Reform, like charity, must begin at home.

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  Home, Reform, Charity

  Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (2010). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.316, Cambridge University Press

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• There is no permanent place in this universe for evil... Evil may hide behind this fallacy and that, but it will be hunted from fallacy to fallacy until there is no more fallacy for it to hide behind.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Evil, May, Fallacy

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• Goethe's devil is a cultivated personage and acquainted with the modern sciences; sneers at witchcraft and the black art even while employing them, and doubts most things, nay, half disbelieves even his own existence.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Art, Black, Doubt

  Thomas Carlyle (1872). “Miscellanies”, p.135

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• All comes out even at the end of the day.

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  The End Of The Day, Ends

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• It is meritorious to insist on forms; religion and all else naturally clothes itself in forms. Everywhere the formed world is the only habitable one.

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  Clothes, Earth, World

  Thomas Carlyle (1871). “The Collected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.339

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• What, in the devil's name, is the use of respectability, with never so many gigs and silver spoons, if thou inwardly art the pitifulness of all men?

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  Respect, Art, Men

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• Statistics is a science which ought to be honourable, the basis of many most important sciences; but it is not to be carried on by steam, this science, any more than others are; a wise head is requisite for carrying it on.

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  Wise, Science, Important

  Critical and Miscellaneous Essays Chartism, II

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• Nature admits no lie.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Nature, Lying

  1850 Latter-Day Pamphlets, no.5.

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• Life is a series of lessons that have to be understood.

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  Teaching, Learning, Lessons

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• The mystery of a person, indeed, is ever divine to him that has a sense for the godlike.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Spirituality, Mystery, Divine

  Thomas Carlyle, G. B. Tennyson (1984). “Carlyle Reader”, p.214, CUP Archive

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• On the whole, I would bid you stand up to your work, whatever it may be, and not be afraid of it; not in sorrows or contradictions to yield, but to push on towards the goal.

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  Yield, Goal, Training

  Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (2010). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.480, Cambridge University Press

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• The goal of yesterday will be our starting-point to-morrow.

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  Yesterday, Goal, Starting

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• Variety is the condition of harmony.

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  Harmony, Variety, Conditions

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• Skepticism means, not intellectual doubt alone, but moral doubt.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Mean, Intellectual, Doubt

  Thomas Carlyle, A.H.R. Ball (2014). “Selections from Carlyle”, p.93, Cambridge University Press

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• He who first shortened the labor of Copyists by device of Movable Types was disbanding hired armies and cashiering most Kings and Senates, and creating a whole new Democratic world: he had invented the Art of printing.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Art, Kings, Army

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

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