Thomas Carlyle Quotes - Page 7

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• There is precious instruction to be got by finding we were wrong.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Instruction, Findings

  Thomas Carlyle (1882). “The Hero as Prophet. Mahomet: Islam Lecture 2: Heroes & Hero Worship”

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• The crash of the whole solar and stellar systems could only kill you once.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Crash, Stellar, Whole

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• Woe to him, . . . who has no court of appeal against the world's judgment.

  Thomas Carlyle

  World, Woe, Judgment

  Thomas Carlyle (1872). “Works”, p.274

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• All true work is sacred. In all true work, were it but true hand work, there is something of divineness. Labor, wide as the earth, has its summit in Heaven.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Work, Hands, Heaven

  Thomas Carlyle (1885*). “Complete Works: Frederick the Great, v. 7. Past and present. The portraits of John Knox. Miscellanies”

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• The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows. The greatest of faults, I should say is to be conscious of none.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Secret, Faults, Conscious

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• Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Happiness, Laughter, Joy

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• The lightning spark of thought generated in the solitary mind awakens its likeness in another mind.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Innovation, Mind, Lightning

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• Great is journalism. Is not every able editor a ruler of the world, being the persuader of it?

  Thomas Carlyle

  Editors, World, Able

  Thomas Carlyle (2016). “The French Revolution: The Historian”, p.294, 北戴河出版

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• Nature, after all, is still the grand agent in making poets.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Agents, Poet, Stills

  Thomas Carlyle (1872). “Works”, p.13

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• Why multiply instances? It is written, the Heavens and the Earth shall fade away like a Vesture; which indeed they are: the Time-vesture of the Eternal. Whatsoever sensibly exists, whatsoever represents Spirit to Spirit, is properly a Clothing, a suit of Raiment, put on for a season, and to be laid off. Thus in this one pregnant subject of CLOTHES, rightly understood, is included all that men have thought, dreamed, done, and been: the whole External Universe and what it holds is but Clothing; and the essence of all Science lies in the PHILOSOPHY OF CLOTHES.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Philosophy, Lying, Men

  Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (2010). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.58, Cambridge University Press

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• Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Change, Hope, Pain

  Thomas Carlyle (1872). “Works”, p.34

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• All true work is sacred.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Sacred, Labor

  Thomas Carlyle (1862). “Past and Present: Chartism, and Sartor Resartus”, p.203

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• A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  "Jean Paul Friedrich Richter" (1827)

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• Laws, written, if not on stone tables, yet on the azure of infinitude, in the inner heart of God's creation, certain as life, certain as death, are there, and thou shalt not disobey them.

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  Heart, Science, Law

  Thomas Carlyle (1872). “Past and Present”, p.198

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• Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Healthy, Virtue

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• This we take it is the grand characteristic of our age. By our skill in Mechanism, it has come to pass, that in the management ofexternal things we excel all other ages; while in whatever respects the pure moral nature, in true dignity of soul and character, we are perhaps inferior to most civilised ages.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Character, Skills, Soul

  Thomas Carlyle (1855). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: By Thomas Carlyle”, p.193

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• If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated readings deserves to be read at all.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Time, Book, Reading

  Thomas Carlyle (1864). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays ...”, p.57

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• The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man; whatsoever he believes, he believes it for himself, not for another.

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  Inspirational, Believe, Men

  Thomas Carlyle (1840). “Works”, p.116

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• The greatest event for the world is the arrival of a new and wise person.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Wise, Wisdom, Events

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• If there be no enemy there's no fight. If no fight, no victory and if no victory there is no crown.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Fighting, Enemy, Victory

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• Money, in truth, can do much, but it cannot do all. We must know the province of it, and confine it there, and even spurn it back when it wishes to get farther.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Money, Wish, Back When

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.206, Lulu.com

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• All destruction, by violent revolution or however it be, is but new creation on a wider scale.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Revolution, Rebellion, Creation

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• Laws themselves, political Constitutions, are not our Life; but only the house wherein our Life is led.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Law, House, Political

  1838 Critical and Miscellaneous Essays,'History'.

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• Every man has a coward and hero in his soul.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Hero, Men, Soul

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• A man must indeed be a hero to appear such in the eyes of his valet.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Hero, Eye, Men

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