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• The steam-engine I call fire-demon and great; but it is nothing to the invention of fire.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Fire, Demon, Invention

  Thomas Carlyle (1858). “Chartism: Past and Present. By Thomas Carlyle”, p.52

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• Man's earthly interests,'are all hooked and buttoned together, and held up, by Clothes.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Clothes, Together

  1833-4 Sartor Resartus, bk.1, ch.8.

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• A pygmy standing on the outward crust of this small planet, his far-reaching spirit stretches outward to the infinite, and there alone finds rest.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Spirit, Infinite, Reaching

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• The Highest Being reveals himself in man.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Highest

  Thomas Carlyle (1864). “Sartor Resartus”, p.192

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• It is not honest inquiry that makes anarchy; but it is error, insincerity, half belief and untruth that make it.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Mistake, Errors, Inquiry

  Thomas Carlyle (1840). “Works”, p.116

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• In a different time, in a different place, it is always some other side of our common human nature that has been developing itself. The actual truth is the sum of all these.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Different, Sides, Common

  "The Hero As Divinity. Odin. Paganism: Scandinavian Mythology". Lecture, May 5, 1840.

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• There is always hope in a man that actually and earnestly works: in Idleness alone is there perpetual despair.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Work, Men

  "Past and Present".

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• The authentic insight and experience of any human soul, were it but insight and experience in hewing of wood and drawing of water, is real knowledge, a real possession and acquirement.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Real, Drawing, Water

  Thomas Carlyle (1881). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: Collected and Republished”, p.164

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• There needs not a great soul to make a hero; there needs a god-created soul which will be true to its origin; that will be a great soul!

  Thomas Carlyle

  Hero, Soul, Needs

  Thomas Carlyle (1840). “On Heroes, Hero-worship and the Heroic in History”, p.171, CUP Archive

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• So here hath been dawning Another blue day; Think, wilt thou let it Slip useless away? Out of eternity This new day is born, Into eternity At night will return.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Thinking, Night, Blue

  Thomas Carlyle (1857). “Critical & Miscellaneous Essays: Collected & Republished”, p.356

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• France was long a despotism tempered by epigrams.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Long, France, Despotism

  History of the French Revolution vol. 3, bk. 7, ch. 7 (1837)

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• Obedience is our universal duty and destiny; wherein whoso will not bend must break; too early and too thoroughly we cannot be trained to know that "would," in this world of ours, is a mere zero to "should," and for most part as the smallest of fractions even to "shall.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Zero, Destiny, World

  Thomas Carlyle, G. B. Tennyson (1984). “Carlyle Reader”, p.192, CUP Archive

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• The true epic of our times is not "Arm's and the Man," but "Tools and the Man"--an infinitely wider kind of epic.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Epic, Men, Heroism

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• I have seen gleams in the face and eyes of the man that have let you look into a higher country.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Country, Eye, Men

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• Democracy is, by the nature of it, a self-canceling business: and gives in the long run a net result of zero.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Running, Zero, Self

  "Chartism". Book by Thomas Carlyle, 1840.

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• persons, with big wigs many of them and austere aspect, whom I take to be Professors of the Dismal Science…
  Coining “Dismal Science” as a nickname for Political Economy

  Thomas Carlyle

  Political, Wigs, Nicknames

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• Ever, as before, does Madness remain a mysterious-terrific, altogether infernal boiling-up of the Nether Chaotic Deep, through this fair-painted Vision of Creation, which swims thereon, which we name the Real.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Real, Names, Swim

  Thomas Carlyle (1871). “The Collected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.159

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• A vein of poetry exists in the hearts of all men.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Heart, Men, Poetry

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.147, Lulu.com

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• It is through symbols that man consciously or unconsciously lives, works and has his being.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Symbols

  Thomas Carlyle, G. B. Tennyson (1984). “Carlyle Reader”, p.278, CUP Archive

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• No nobler feeling than this, of admiration for one higher than himself, dwells in the breast of man. It is to this hour, and at all hours, the vivifying influence in man's life.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Respect, Men, Feelings

  Thomas Carlyle (1864). “Sartor Resartus”, p.193

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• Society is founded on hero-worship.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Hero, Worship, Hero Worship

  Thomas Carlyle (1869). “Heroes and Hero-worship”, p.15

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• Not only was Thebes built by the music of an Orpheus; but without the music of some inspired Orpheus was no city ever built, no work that man glories in ever done.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Cities, Done

  Thomas Carlyle (1871). “The Collected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.161

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• What I loved in the man was his health, his unity with himself; all people and all things seemed to find their quite peaceable adjustment with him, not a proud domineering one, as after doubtful contest, but a spontaneous-looking peaceable, even humble one.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Humble, Men, People

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• The errors of a wise man are literally more instructive than the truths of a fool. The wise man travels in lofty, far-seeing regions; the fool in low-lying, high-fenced lanes; retracing the footsteps of the former, to discover where he diviated, whole provinces of the universe are laid open to us; in the path of the latter, granting even that he has not deviated at all, little is laid open to us but two wheel-ruts and two hedges.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Wise, Lying, Science

  Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (2010). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.4, Cambridge University Press

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• Creation is great, and cannot be understood.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Creation, Understood

  Thomas Carlyle (1872). “Works”, p.4

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