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• Every human being has a right to hear what other wise human beings have spoken to him. It is one of the Rights of Men; a very cruel injustice if you deny it to a man!

  Thomas Carlyle

  Wise, Freedom, Men

  1840 Letter to John Sterling, collected in New Letters of Carlyle (1904), vol.1.

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• The spiritual is the parent of the practical.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Spiritual, Parent, Spirituality

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• The great soul of this world is just.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Justice, Soul, World

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• Only perhaps in the United States, which alone of countries can do without governing,every man being at least able to live, and move off into the wilderness, let Congress jargon as it will,can such a form of so-called Government continue for any length of time to torment men with the semblance, when the indispensable substance is not there.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Country, Moving, Men

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.638, Lulu.com

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• The genuine essence of truth never dies.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Truth, Essence, Genuine

  Thomas Carlyle (1840). “On Heroes, Hero-worship and the Heroic in History”, p.74

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• A man's religion consists, not of the many things he is in doubt of and tries to believe, but of the few he is assured of and has no need of effort for believing.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Believe, Men, Effort

  Thomas Carlyle (1872). “Works”, p.266

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• War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle; therefore they take boys from one village and another village, stick them into uniforms, equip them with guns, and let them loose like wild beasts against one other.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Peace, Military, War

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

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• With stupidity and sound digestion, man may front much.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Stupidity, Sound

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

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• Be not a slave of words.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Advice, Slave

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• Doubt of any kind cannot be resolved except by action.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Doubt, Action, Kind

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• The highest ensign that men ever met and embraced under, the Cross itself, had no meaning save an accidental extrinsic one.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Crosses, Mets

  Thomas Carlyle, G. B. Tennyson (1984). “Carlyle Reader”, p.278, CUP Archive

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• In books lies the soul fo the whole past time.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Lying, Book, Past

  'On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic' (1841) 'The Hero as Man of Letters'

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• One life; a little gleam of Time between two Eternities; no second chance to us for evermore!

  Thomas Carlyle

  Time, Second Chance, Two

  Thomas Carlyle (1860). “Passages selected from the writings of Thomas Carlyle, with a biogr. memoir by T. Ballantyne”, p.207

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• Enjoying things which are pleasant; that is not the evil; it is the reducing of our moral self to slavery by them that is.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Self, Evil, Wickedness

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.142, Lulu.com

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• Violence does even justice unjustly.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Justice, Doe, Violence

  Thomas Carlyle (1843). “Past and Present”, p.20

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• The essence of humor is sensibility; warm, tender fellow-feeling with all forms of existence.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Humor, Essence, Feelings

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• All work, even cotton-spinning, is noble; work is alone noble.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Life, Positive, Noble

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.365, Lulu.com

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• It is not to taste sweet things; but to do noble and true things, and vindicate himself under God's heaven as a God-made man, that the poorest son of Adam dimly longs. Show him the way of doing that, the dullest day-drudge kindles into a hero. They wrong man greatly who say he is to be seduced by ease. Difficulty, abnegation, martyrdom, death, are the allurements that act on the heart of man. Kindle the inner genial life of him, you have a flame that burns up all lower considerations.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Sweet, Hero, Heart

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.139, Lulu.com

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• No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, could ever compel the soul of man to believe or to disbelieve: it is his own indefeasible light, that judgment of his; he will reign and believe there by the grace of God alone!

  Thomas Carlyle

  Believe, Men, Light

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.177, Lulu.com

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• Great men are the commissioned guides of mankind, who rule their fellows because they are wiser.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Wise, Wisdom, Men

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• Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Birthday, Time, Sorrow

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• Rest is a fine medicine. Let your stomachs rest, ye dyspeptics; let your brain rest, you wearied and worried people of business; let your limbs rest, ye children of toil!

  Thomas Carlyle

  Children, Medicine, People

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• Quackery gives birth to nothing; gives death to all things.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Giving, Birth, All Things

  Heroes and Hero-Worship Lect. I

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• No man sees far, most see no farther than their noses.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Vision, Noses

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• Nine-tenths of the miseries and vices of mankind proceed from idleness.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Vices, Nine, Misery

  Thomas Carlyle (1857). “Life of Friedrich Schiller (1825): Life of John Sterling (1851)”, p.38

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