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• Even in the meanest sorts of labor, the whole soul of a man is composed into a kind of real harmony the instant he sets himself to work.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Real, Work, Men

  Thomas Carlyle (1848). “Past and Present: Chartism. New Ed., Complete in One Volume”, p.197

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• The Builder of this Universe was wise, He plann'd all souls, all systems, planets, particles: The Plan He shap'd all Worlds and Æons by, Was-Heavens!-was thy small Nine-and-thirty Articles!

  Thomas Carlyle

  Wise, Science, Heaven

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.341, Lulu.com

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• Coining "Dismal Science" as a nickname for Political Economy

  Thomas Carlyle

  Political, Nicknames, Economics

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• Song is the heroics of speech.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Song, Speech

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• Be a pattern to others, and then all will go well; for as a whole city is affected by the licentious passions and vices of great men, so it is likewise reformed by their moderation.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Passion, Men, Cities

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• All history . . . is an inarticulate Bible.

  Thomas Carlyle

  History, Inarticulate

  Thomas Carlyle (1901). “Carlyle on Heroes, Hero-worship, and the Heroic in History”

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• Is not every meanest day the confluence of two eternities?

  Thomas Carlyle

  Two, Eternity, Confluence

  "The French Revolution, A History" by Thomas Carlyle, part I, book VI, chapter V., 1837.

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• Midas-eared Mammonism, double-barrelled Dilettantism, and their thousand adjuncts and corollaries, are not the Law by which God Almighty has appointed this His universe to go.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Law, Wealth, Almighty

  Thomas Carlyle (1858). “Chartism: Past and Present. By Thomas Carlyle”, p.96

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• Histories are as perfect as the Historian is wise, and is gifted with an eye and a soul.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Wise, Eye, History

  Oliver Cromwell, Thomas Carlyle (1857). “Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches: With Elucidations”, p.6

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• Innumerable are the illusions and legerdemain-tricks of custom: but of all of these, perhaps the cleverest is her knack of persuading us that the miraculous, by simple repetition, ceases to be miraculous.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Simple, Knack, Illusion

  Thomas Carlyle (1871). “Works”, p.179

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• Experience of actual fact either teaches fools or abolishes them.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Education, Science, Fool

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• And man's little Life has Duties that are great, that are alone great, and go up to Heaven and down to Hell.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Heaven, Littles, Hell

  "Past and Present and Chartism".

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• The greatest security against sin is to be shocked at its presence.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Inspiration, Sin, Shocked

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• To the mean eye all things are trivial, as certainly as to the jaundiced they are yellow.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Mean, Eye, Yellow

  Thomas Carlyle (1872). “On Heroes, Hero-worship and the Heroic in History”, p.87

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• O thou that pinest in the imprisonment of the Actual, and criest bitterly to the gods for a kingdom wherein to rule and create, know this for a truth: the thing thou seekest is already here, "here or nowhere," couldst thou only see.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Powerful, Kingdoms, Knows

  Thomas Carlyle, Rodger L. Tarr, Mark Engel (2000). “Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh in Three Books”, p.145, Univ of California Press

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• Force, force, everywhere force; we ourselves a mysterious force in the centre of that. "There is not a leaf rotting on the highway but has Force in it: how else could it rot?" [As used in his time, by the word force, Carlyle means energy.]

  Thomas Carlyle

  Mean, Energy, Rotting

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• Social Science, is not a 'gay science' but rueful, which finds the secret of this universe in 'supply and demand' and reduces the duty of human governors to that of letting men alone. Not a 'gay science', no, a dreary, desolate, and indeed quite abject and distressing one; what we might call, the dismal science

  Thomas Carlyle

  Ignorance, Gay, Men

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.472, Lulu.com

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• Does not every true man feel that he is himself made higher by doing reverence to what is really above him?

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Doe, Worship

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.100, Lulu.com

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• Music... a kind of inarticulate, unfathomable speech, which leads to the edge of the Infinite.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Inspiration, Speech, Kind

  Thomas Carlyle (1840). “Works”, p.78

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• Considering the multitude of mortals that handle the pen in these days, and can mostly spell, and write without glaring violations of grammar, the question naturally arises: How is it, then, that no work proceeds from them, bearing any stamp of authenticity and permanence; of worth for more than one day?

  Thomas Carlyle

  Writing, One Day, Authenticity

  Thomas Carlyle (1872). “Works”, p.63

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• Contented saturnine human figures, a dozen or so of them, sitting around a large long table...Perfect equality is to be the rule; no rising or notice taken when anybody enters or leaves. Let the entering man take his place and pipe, without obligatory remarks; if he cannot smoke...let him at least affect to do so, and not ruffle the established stream of things.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Taken, Men, Perfect

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• Our very walking is an incessant falling; a falling and a catching of ourselves before we come actually to the pavement. It is emblematic of all things a man does.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Fall, Men, Doe

  Thomas Carlyle, Alexander Carlyle (1904). “New letters of Thomas Carlyle”

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• Pin thy faith to no man's sleeve. Hast thou not two eyes of thy own?

  Thomas Carlyle

  Faith, Eye, Men

  Thomas Carlyle (1881). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: Collected and Republished”, p.329

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• Nothing ever happens but once in all this world. What I do now I do once for all. It is over and gone, with all its eternity of solemn meaning.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Events, Gone, World

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• Is there no God, then, but at best an absentee God, sitting idle, ever since the first Sabbath, at the outside of his Universe?

  Thomas Carlyle

  God, Sitting, Firsts

  Thomas Carlyle (1871). “The Collected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.99

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