Thomas Carlyle Quotes - Page 31

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• Of a truth, men are mystically united: a mystic bond of brotherhood makes all men one.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Sympathy, Men, Brotherhood Of Man

  Thomas Carlyle (1881). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: Collected and Republished”, p.115

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• A false man found a religion? Why, a false man cannot build a brick house!

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, House, Bricks

  Thomas Carlyle (1871). “The Collected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.218

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• I have no patience whatever with these gorilla damnifications of humanity.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Humanity, Gorillas, No Patience

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• In this world there is one godlike thing, the essence of all that was or ever will be of godlike in this world: the veneration done to Human Worth by the hearts of men.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Appreciation, Heart, Men

  "The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle".

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• No man at bottom means injustice; it is always for some obscure distorted image of a right that he contends: an obscure image diffracted, exaggerated, in the wonderfulest way by natural dimness and selfishness; getting tenfold more diffracted by exasperation of contest, till at length it become all but irrecognis-able.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Mean, Men, Selfishness

  Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (2010). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.123, Cambridge University Press

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• Close thy Byron ; open thy Goethe .

  Thomas Carlyle

  Byron

  Thomas Carlyle, Rodger L. Tarr, Mark Engel (2000). “Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh in Three Books”, p.42, Univ of California Press

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• No person was every rightly understood until they had been first regarded with a certain feeling, not of tolerance, but of sympathy.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Sympathy, Understanding, Tolerance

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• For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Judging, Quality

  Thomas Carlyle, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Swasey McKean, Charles Stearns Wheeler (1838). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays”, p.280

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• In the poorest cottage are Books: is one Book, wherein for several thousands of years the spirit of man has found light, and nourishment, and an interpreting response to whatever is Deepest in him.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Book, Men, Light

  Thomas Carlyle (1857). “Critical & Miscellaneous Essays: Collected & Republished”, p.161

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• What is all Knowledge too but recorded Experience, and a product of History; of which, therefore, Reasoning and Belief, no less than Action and Passion, are essential materials?

  Thomas Carlyle

  Passion, Knowledge, Experience

  'Critical and Miscellaneous Essays' (1838) 'On History'

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• Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness. He has a work, a life-purpose; he has found it, and will follow it! How, as a free-flowing channel, dug and torn by noble force through the sour mudswamp of one's existence, like an ever-deepening river there, it runs and flows

  Thomas Carlyle

  Running, Work, Blessed

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.396, Lulu.com

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• Clean undeniable right, clear undeniable might: either of these once ascertained puts an end to battle. All battle is a confused experiment to ascertain one and both of these.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Confused, Confusion, Confusing

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• Roguery is thought by some to be cunning and laughable: it is neither; it is devilish.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Rogues, Cunning, Devilish

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• May blessings be upon the head of Cadmus, the Phoenicians, or whoever it was that invented books.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Book, Blessing, May

  Thomas Carlyle, Charles Richard Sanders, Clyde de L. Ryals, Jane Welsh Carlyle, Kenneth J. Fielding (1970). “The collected letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle”

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• That great mystery of TIME, were there no other; the illimitable, silent, never-resting thing called Time, rolling, rushing on, swift, silent, like an all-embracing ocean tide, on which we and all the Universe swim like exhalations, like apparitions which are, and then are not: this is forever very literally a miracle; a thing to strike us dumb,-for we have no word to speak about it.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Time, Ocean, Rushing

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.96, Lulu.com

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• Insurrection, never so necessary, is a most sad necessity; and governors who wait for that to instruct them are surely getting into the fatalest course.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Waiting, Revolution, Courses

  Thomas Carlyle (1870). “Past and Present”, p.20

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• Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such: it is an accident, not a property, of a man; like light, it can give little or nothing, but at most may show what is given.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Tests, Merit, Fame

  "The Works of Thomas Carlyle".

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• In every object there is inexhaustible meaning.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Objects

  Thomas Carlyle (2016). “The French Revolution: The Historian”, p.11, 北戴河出版

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• An everlasting lodestar, that beams the brighter in the heavens the darker here on earth grows the night.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Night, Heaven, Religion

  Thomas Carlyle (1858). “Chartism: Past and Present. By Thomas Carlyle”, p.248

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• O thou who art able to write a Book, which once in the two centuries or oftener there is a man gifted to do, envy not him whom they name City-builder, and inexpressibly pity him whom they name Conqueror or City-burner! Thou too art a Conqueror and Victor; but of the true sort, namely over the Devil: thou too hast built what will outlast all marble and metal, and be a wonder-bringing City of the Mind, a Temple and Seminary and Prophetic Mount, whereto all kindreds of the Earth will pilgrim.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Art, Book, Writing

  Thomas Carlyle, Rodger L. Tarr, Mark Engel (2000). “Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh in Three Books”, p.129, Univ of California Press

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• No good book, or good thing of any sort, shows its best face at first.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Book, Faces, Firsts

  Thomas Carlyle (1864). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays ...”, p.167

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• Of our thinking it is but the upper surface that we shape into articulate thought; underneath the region of argument and conscious discourse lies the region of meditation.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Lying, Thinking, Meditation

  John Stuart Mill, Thomas Carlyle (2010). “Autobiography of J.S. Mill & on Liberty; Characteristics, Inaugural Address at Edinburgh & Sir Walter Scott”, p.336, Cosimo, Inc.

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• It is well said, in every sense, that a man's religion is the chief fact with regard to him.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Religion, Facts

  1841 On Heroes, Hero- Worship, and the Heroic,'The Hero as Divinity' (published 1897).

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• Out of Eternity the new day is born; Into Eternity at night will return.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Night, New Day, Return

  Thomas Carlyle, “Today”

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• A poor creature who has said or done nothing worth a serious man taking the trouble of remembering.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Funny, Men, Serious Man

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