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• If Hero means sincere man, why may not every one of us be a Hero?

  Thomas Carlyle

  Hero, Mean, Men

  Thomas Carlyle (1966). “On Heroes, Hero-worship, and the Heroic in History”, p.127, U of Nebraska Press

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• History: A distillation of rumor.

  Thomas Carlyle

  History, Rumor, Distillation

  Thomas Carlyle (1857). “The French Revolution: a History: In Three Parts: I. the Bastille; II. the Constitution; III. the Guillotine : in Two Volumes”, p.200

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• Oh, give us the man who sings at his work.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Motivational, Happiness, Work

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• Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Demand, Parrots, Teach

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• Dishonesty is the raw material not of quacks only, but also in great part dupes.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Lying, Raw Materials, Dupes

  Thomas Carlyle, Chris Vanden Bossche (2002). “Historical Essays”, p.43, Univ of California Press

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• Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do that with all thy might and leave the issues calmly to God.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Hands, Issues, Might

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• There can be no acting or doing of any kind till it be recognized that there is a thing to be done; the thing once recognized, doing in a thousand shapes becomes possible.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Acting, Done, Shapes

  Thomas Carlyle (1891). “The Socialism and Unsocialism of Thomas Carlyle: Introduction, by the editor. Book I. Proem. Book II. The modern worker. Book III. Signs of the times. Book IV. Horoscope. Essay on the genius and tendency of the writings of Thomas Carlyle, by Joseph Mazzini. v. 2. Book V. The French revolution. Book VI. Horoscope. Essay on the genius and tendency of the writings of Thomas Carlyle, by Joseph Mazzini”

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• If a man was great while living, he becomes tenfold greater when dead.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Fame, Greater

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.108, Lulu.com

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• In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Inspirational, Notable, Moments

  Thomas Carlyle, G. B. Tennyson (1984). “Carlyle Reader”, p.180, CUP Archive

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• The world is a thing that a man must learn to despise, and even to neglect, before he can learn to reverence it, and work in it and for it.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, World, Neglect

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• Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Animal, Men, Tools

  'Sartor Resartus' (1834) bk. 1, ch. 5

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• The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Real, Men, Gunpowder

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• War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Peace, War, Fighting

  "Patriotism: A Menace to Liberty" by Emma Goldman, chapter five of Anarchism and Other Essays, 1911.

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• Man makes circumstances, and spiritually as well as economically, is the artificer of his own fortune.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Fortune, Circumstances

  Thomas Carlyle (1857). “Critical & Miscellaneous Essays: Collected & Republished”, p.228

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• Of all God's creatures, Man alone is poor.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Poor, Creatures

  Thomas Carlyle, Jane Welsh Carlyle (1909). “The Love Letters of Thomas Carlyle and Jane Welsh”

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• The hell of these days is the fear of not getting along, especially of not making money.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Making Money, Hell, These Days

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• Just in the ratio knowledge increases, faith decreases.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Ratios, Increase, Decrease

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• All men, if they work not as in the great taskmaster's eye, will work wrong, and work unhappily for themselves and for you.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Eye, Responsibility, Men

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• Hero-worship exists, has existed, and will forever exist, universally, among mankind.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Hero, Forever, Worship

  Thomas Carlyle (1848). “Past and Present: Chartism, and Sartor Resartus”

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• Woe to him that claims obedience when it is not due; woe to him that refuses it when it is.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Woe, Obedience, Claims

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.228, Lulu.com

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• Government is emphatically a machine: to the discontented a taxing machine, to the contented a machine for securing property.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Government, Liberty, Machines

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.19, Lulu.com

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• Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the architect of circumstance.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Bricks And Mortar, Empathy

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Nathan Haskell Dole, George Henry Lewes, Thomas Carlyle, John Storer Cobb (1902*). “The Works of Goethe”

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• The soul gives unity to what it looks at with love.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Love, Giving, Soul

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• Thought is the parent of the deed.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Thinking, Parent, Deeds

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• Respectable Professors of the Dismal Science.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Economics, Professors, Respectable

  1850 Latter-Day Pamphlets, no.1,'The Present Time'.

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