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• The English are a dumb people. They can do great acts, but not describe them.

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  People, Dumb, Dumb People

  Thomas Carlyle (1843). “Past and Present”, p.93

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• A witty statesman said, you might prove anything by figures.

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  Witty, Math, Science

  Chartism ch. 2 (1839) See Disraeli 38

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• Skepticism . . . is not intellectual only it is moral also, a chronic atrophy and disease of the whole soul.

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  Wise, Soul, Intellectual

  Thomas Carlyle, Edwin Markham (1842). “On Heroes, Hero-worship, and the Heroic in History: Six Lectures, Reported, with Emendations and Additions”, p.215

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• Thirty millions, mostly fools.

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  Funny, Humor, Insulting

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• In the huge mass of evil as it rolls and swells, there is ever some good working toward deliverance and triumph.

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  Evil, Triumph, Deliverance

  Thomas Carlyle (2007). “The French Revolution: A History”, p.10, Modern Library

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• Misery which, through long ages, had no spokesman, no helper, will now be its own helper and speak for itself.

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  Long, Age, Misery

  Thomas Carlyle (1872). “The French Revolution: a History”, p.235

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• Silence is the eternal duty of man.

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  Men, Silence, Duty

  Thomas Carlyle (1866). “On the choice of books: the inaugural address of Thomas Carlyle”, p.79

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• Love not pleasure; love God. This is the Everlasting Yea, wherein all contradiction is solved.

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  Love, Pleasure, Contradiction

  Thomas Carlyle (2016). “Sartor Resartus: The Historian”, p.141, 北戴河出版

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• The greatest fault is to be conscious of none.

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  Faults, Conscious

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• We are not altogether here to tolerate. We are here to resist, to control and vanquish withal.

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  Leadership, Vanquish, Tolerate

  Thomas Carlyle (2016). “Heroes and Hero Worship: The Historian”, p.134, 北戴河出版

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• Men worship the shows of great men; the most disbelieve that there is any reality of great men to worship.

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  Reality, Greatness, Men

  Thomas Carlyle (1869). “Heroes and Hero-worship”, p.100

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• We have chosen Mahomet not as the most eminent Prophet; but as the one we are freest to speak of. He is by no means the truest of Prophets; but I do esteem him a true one.

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  Mean, Speak, Prophet

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.120, Lulu.com

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• The world is an old woman, and mistakes any gilt farthing for a gold coin; whereby being often cheated, she will thenceforth trust nothing but the common copper.

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  Mistake, Gold, Coins

  Thomas Carlyle (1838). “Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh ; In Three Books ...”, p.129

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• Out of the lowest depths there is a path to the loftiest heights.

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  Depth, Height, Path

  Thomas Carlyle (1871). “Works”, p.146

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• Friendship, in the old heroic sense of that term, no longer exists. It is in reality no longer expected or recognized as a virtue among men.

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  Reality, Men, Lost Friendship

  Thomas Carlyle (1897). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle: (complete).”

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• Not on morality, but on cookery, let us build our stronghold: there brandishing our frying-pan, as censer, let us offer sweet incense to the Devil, and live at ease on the fat things he has provided for his elect!

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  Sweet, Cooking, Devil

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

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• The mystical bond of brotherhood makes all men brothers.

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  Brother, Men, Mystical

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• The nobleness of silence. The highest melody dwells only in silence,--the sphere melody, the melody of health.

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  Silence, Spheres, Melody

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• If you will believe me, you who are young, yours is the golden season of life. As you have heard it called, so it verily is, the seed-time of life; in which, if you do not sow, or if you sow tares instead of wheat, you cannot expect to reap well afterwards, and you will arrive at little. And in the course of years when you come to look back, if you have not done what you have heard from your advisers,-and among many counsellors there is wisdom,-you will bitterly repent when it is too late.

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  Believe, Years, Training

  John Stuart Mill, Thomas Carlyle (2010). “Autobiography of J.S. Mill & on Liberty; Characteristics, Inaugural Address at Edinburgh & Sir Walter Scott”, p.377, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Is not light grander than fire?

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  Fire, Light

  Thomas Carlyle (1872). “Past and Present”, p.203

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• Also, what mountains of dead ashes, wreck and burnt bones, does assiduous pedantry dig up from the past time and name it History.

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  Past, Names, History

  Thomas Carlyle (1843). “Past and Present”, p.36

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• Beautiful it is, and a gleam from the same eternal pole-star visible amid the destinies of men, that all talent, all intellect, is in the first plane moral. What a world were this otherwise!

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  Beautiful, Stars, Destiny

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• What unknown seas of feeling lie in man, and will from time to time break through!

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  Lying, Men, Sea

  Thomas Carlyle, James Anthony Froude (2012). “Reminiscences”, p.22, Cambridge University Press

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• One is hardly sensible of fatigue while he marches to music.

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  Music, March, Sensible

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• To a shower of gold most things are penetrable.

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  Money, Gold, Showers

  Thomas Carlyle (2007). “The French Revolution: A History”, p.84, Modern Library

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