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• Money will buy money's worth; but the thing men call fame, what is it?

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Fame

  Thomas Carlyle (1857). “Critical and miscellaneous essays, collected and republ”, p.157

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• That a Parliament, especially a Parliament with Newspaper Reporters firmly established in it, is an entity which by its very nature cannot do work, but can do talk only.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Nature, Entity, Newspapers

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

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• Professors of the Dismal Science, I perceive the length of your tether is now pretty well run; and I must request you to talk a little lower in the future.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Running, Littles, Length

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• Macaulay is well for awhile, but one wouldn't live under Niagara.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Wells, Niagara

  In R. M. Milnes 'Notebook' (1838) p. 157

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• It is not a lucky word, this name impossible; no good comes of those who have it so often in their mouths.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Attitude, Names, Lucky

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• No age seemed the age of romance to itself.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Romance, Age, Romanticism

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• The end of man is action.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Action, Ends

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• Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than gracefully insists on its own rights.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Rights, Remember, Breeding

  Thomas Carlyle (1833). “Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Zenfelsdröck in Three Books”, p.165

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• The depth of our despair measures what capability and height of claim we have to hope.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Despair, Depth, Height

  Thomas Carlyle, Oliver Cromwell, Henry Duff Traill (2010). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.51, Cambridge University Press

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• The eye of the intellect "sees in all objects what it brought with it the means of seeing."

  Thomas Carlyle

  Mean, Eye, Intellect

  Thomas Carlyle (1857). “Critical and miscellaneous essays, collected and republ”, p.198

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• Poetry, therefore, we will call Musical Thought.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Poetry, Musical

  Thomas Carlyle (1864). “Sartor Resartus”, p.247

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• That monstrous tuberosity of civilised life, the capital of England.

  Thomas Carlyle

  London, England, Civilised

  Thomas Carlyle (1831). “Sartor Resartus: The life and opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh in three books: By Thomas Carlyle”, p.167

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• One seems to believe almost all that they believe; and when they stop short and call it a Religion, and you pass on, and call it only a reminiscence of one, should you not part with the kiss of peace?

  Thomas Carlyle

  Believe, Kissing, Atheism

  Thomas Carlyle (1923). “Letters of Thomas Carlyle to John Stuart Mill, John Sterling and Robert Browning”

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• There is no life of a man, faithfully recorded, but is a heroic poem of its sort, rhymed or unrhymed.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Life, Men, Heroic

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

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• Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Funny Basketball, Originality, Clamour

  Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (2010). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.11, Cambridge University Press

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• A man--be the heavens ever praised!--is sufficient for himself.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Heaven, Aspiration

  Thomas Carlyle (1871). “The Collected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.180

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• The true Sovereign of the world, who moulds the world like soft wax, according to his pleasure, is he who lovingly sees into the world.

  Thomas Carlyle

  World, Sovereign, Pleasure

  Thomas Carlyle (1857). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: (VI, 507 p.)”, p.377

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• Eternity looks grander and kinder if time grow meaner and more hostile.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Time, Looks, Eternity

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• Love is the only game that is not called on account of darkness.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Love, Games, Darkness

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• My whinstone house my castle is, I have my own four walls.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Wall, Home, House

  Thomas Carlyle, Jane Welsh Carlyle (1977). “The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle: Jan. 1829-Sept. 1831”

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• The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.

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  Life, Change, Truth

  Thomas Carlyle (1858). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays”, p.308

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• So much of truth, only under an ancient obsolete vesture, but the spirit of it still true, do I find in the Paganism of old nations. Nature is still divine, the revelation of the workings of God; the Hero is still worshipable: this, under poor cramped incipient forms, is what all Pagan religions have struggled, as they could, to set forth.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Hero, Paganism, Spirit

  Thomas Carlyle (2016). “Heroes and Hero Worship: The Historian”, p.14, 北戴河出版

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• He that works and does some Poem, not he that merely says one, is worthy of the name of Poet.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Names, Doe, Poet

  Thomas Carlyle, Oliver Cromwell, Henry Duff Traill (2010). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.78, Cambridge University Press

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• In no time whatever can small critics entirely eradicate out of living men's hearts a certain altogether peculiar collar reverence for Great Men--genuine admiration, loyalty, adora-tion.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Loyalty, Appreciation, Heart

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• I came hither [Craigenputtoch] solely with the design to simplify my way of life and to secure the independence through which I could be enabled to remain true to myself.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Design, Independence, Way

  Thomas Carlyle (1866). “On the choice of books: the inaugural address of Thomas Carlyle”, p.19

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