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• Wonderful Force of Public Opinion! We must act and walk in all points as it prescribes; follow the traffic it bids us, realize the sum of money, the degree of influence it expects of us, or we shall be lightly esteemed; certain mouthfuls of articulate wind will be blown at us, and this what mortal courage can front?

  Thomas Carlyle

  Wind, Degrees, Public Opinion

  Thomas Carlyle (1855). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: By Thomas Carlyle”, p.195

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• I had a lifelong quarrel with God, but in the end we made up.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Faith, Christianity, Ends

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• Lives the man that can figure a naked Duke of Windlestraw addressing a naked House of Lords?

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  Men, House, Dukes

  Thomas Carlyle (1831). “Sartor Resartus: The life and opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh in three books: By Thomas Carlyle”, p.42

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• The coldest word was once a glowing new metaphor.

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  Glowing, Language, Metaphor

  Thomas Carlyle (1843). “Past and Present”, p.79

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• The true Church of England, at this moment, lies in the Editors of the newspapers.

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  Lying, Editors, Church

  1829 Signs of the Times.

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• How indestructibly the good grows, and propagates itself, even among the weedy entanglements of evil.

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  Evil, Goodness, Entanglement

  Thomas Carlyle, Rodger L. Tarr, Mark Engel (2000). “Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh in Three Books”, p.76, Univ of California Press

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• There is but one temple in this Universe: The Body. We speak to God whenever we lay our hands upon it.

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  Philosophy, Hands, Medicine

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• Generations are as the days of toilsome mankind; death and birth are the vesper and the matin bells that summon mankind to sleep and to rise refreshed for new advancement. What the father has made, the son can make and enjoy; but has also work of his own appointed him. Thus all things wax and roll onwards: arts, establishments, opinions, nothing is ever completed, but ever completing.

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  Art, Father, Sleep

  Thomas Carlyle (2016). “Sartor Resartus: The Historian”, p.180, 北戴河出版

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• A fair day's wage for a fair day's work": it is as just a demand as governed men ever made of governing. It is the everlasting right of man.

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  Men, Demand, Made

  Thomas Carlyle (1872). “Works”, p.16

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• A man's perfection is his work.

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  Work, Men, Perfection

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• There is no heroic poem in the world but is at bottom a biography, the life of a man.

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  Men, Poetry, World

  Critical and Miscellaneous Essays "Sir Walter Scott" (1838)

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• History is the distillation of rumour.

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  History, Rumours, Distillation

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• A Fourth Estate, of Able Editors, springs up.

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  Spring, Editors, Able

  Thomas Carlyle (1871). “The French Revolution: A History”, p.205

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• Genuine Work alone, what thou workest faithfully, that is eternal, as the Almighty Founder and World-Builder himself.

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  Work, World, Almighty

  Thomas Carlyle (1843). “Past and Present”, p.81

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• To be true is manly, chivalrous, Christian; to be false is mean, cowardly, devilish.

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  Christian, Mean, Being True

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• In every object there is inexhaustible meaning; the eye sees in it what the eye brings means of seeing.

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  Knowledge, Mean, Eye

  Thomas Carlyle, Marianna De_Marinis (1851). “The French Revolution a History by Thomas Carlyle: The bastille”, p.8

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• Nay, in every epoch of the world, the great event, parent of all others, is it not the arrival of a Thinker in the world?

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  Parent, Events, World

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.106, Lulu.com

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• The fine arts once divorcing themselves from truth are quite certain to fall mad, if they do not die.

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  Art, Fall, Mad

  Thomas Carlyle (1872). “Works”, p.273

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• Shakespeare says, we are creatures that look before and after; the more surprising that we do not look around a little, and see what is passing under our very eyes.

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  Eye, Looks, Littles

  Sartor Resartus Book I, Chapter 1

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• No man is born without ambitious worldly desires.

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  Ambition, Men, Desire

  Thomas Carlyle (1864). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays ...”, p.236

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• A man ought to inquire and find out what he really and truly has an appetite for; what suits his constitution; and that, doctors tell him, is the very thing he ought to have in general. And so with books.

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  Book, Men, Doctors

  Thomas Carlyle (1866). “On the choice of books: the inaugural address of Thomas Carlyle”, p.57

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• I want to meet my God awake.

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  Death, Want, Awake

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• What a wretched thing is all fame! A renown of the highest sort endures, say, for two thousand years. And then? Why, then, a fathomless eternity swallows it. Work for eternity; not the meagre rhetorical eternity of the periodical critics, but for the real eternity wherein dwelleth the Divine.

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  Real, Years, Two

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• God gave you that gifted tongue of yours, and set it between your teeth, to make known your true meaning to us, not to be rattled like a muffin man's bell.

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  Men, Teeth, Bells

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• We observe with confidence that the truly strong mind, view it as intellect or morality, or under any other aspect, is nowise the mind acquainted with its strength; that here the sign of health is unconsciousness.

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  Strong, Greatness, Views

  Thomas Carlyle (1881). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: Collected and Republished”, p.4

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