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To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself. ~ Thomas Carlyle
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No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men. ~ Thomas Carlyle
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No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad. ~ Thomas Carlyle
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Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith. ~ Thomas Carlyle
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A battle is a terrible conjugation of the verb to kill: I kill, thou killest, he kills, we kill, they kill, all kill. ~ Thomas Carlyle
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I too acknowledge the all-out omnipotence of early culture and nature; hereby we have either a doddered dwarf-bush, or a high-towering, wide-shadowing tree! either a sick yellow cabbage, or an edible luxuriant green one. Of a truth, it is the duty of all men, especially of all philosophers, to note down with accuracy the characteristic circumstances of their education,
what furthered, what hindered, what in any way modified it. ~ Thomas Carlyle
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One of the Godlike things of this world is the veneration done to human worth by the hearts of men. ~ Thomas Carlyle
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In the true Literary Man there is thus ever, acknowledged or not by the world, a sacredness: he is the light of the world; the world's Priest;
guiding it, like a sacred Pillar of Fire, in its dark pilgrimage through the waste of Time. ~ Thomas Carlyle
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Music is well said to be the speech of angels; in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine. It brings us near to the infinite. ~ Thomas Carlyle
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Why did not somebody teach me the constellations, and make me at home in the starry heavens, which are always overhead, and which I don't half know to this day? ~ Thomas Carlyle
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Out of Eternity the new day is born; Into Eternity at night will return. ~ Thomas Carlyle
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If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it. ~ Thomas Carlyle
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A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man. ~ Thomas Carlyle
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The depth of our despair measures what capability and height of claim we have to hope. ~ Thomas Carlyle
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Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether. ~ Thomas Carlyle
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One life - a little gleam of Time between two Eternities. ~ Thomas Carlyle
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Such is the world. Understand it, despise it, love it; cheerfully hold on thy way through it, with thy eye on highest loadstars! ~ Thomas Carlyle
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Be not a slave of words. ~ Thomas Carlyle
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Providence has given to the French the empire of the land, to the English that of the sea, to the Germans that of
the air! ~ Thomas Carlyle
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The condition of the most passionate enthusiast is to be preferred over the individual who, because of the fear of making a mistake, won't in the end affirm or deny anything ~ Thomas Carlyle
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I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. ~ Thomas Carlyle
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Not what I Have," continues he, "but what I Do is my Kingdom. ~ Thomas Carlyle
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We do everything by custom, even believe by it; our very axioms, let us boast of free-thinking as we may, are oftenest simply such beliefs as we have never heard questioned. ~ Thomas Carlyle
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Trust not the heart of that man for whom old clothes are not venerable. ~ Thomas Carlyle
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There must be a new world if there is to be any world at all! ... These days of universal death must be days of universal new birth, if the ruin is not to be total and final! It is Time to make the dullest man consider; and ask himself, Whence he came? Whither he is bound? ~ Thomas Carlyle
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A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope. ~ Thomas Carlyle
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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
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Is man's civilization only a wrappage, through which the savage nature of him can still burst, infernal as ever? ~ Thomas Carlyle
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The ideal is within you, and the obstacle to reaching this ideal is also within you. You already possess all the material from which to create your ideal self. - THOMAS CARLYLE ~ Leo Tolstoy
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It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics. ~ Thomas Carlyle
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For every one hundred men who can stand adversity there is only one who can withstand prosperity. ~ Thomas Carlyle
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Wondrous indeed is the virtue of a true Book. ~ Thomas Carlyle
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Man is, and was always, a block-head and dullard; much readier to feel and digest, than to think and consider. ~ Thomas Carlyle
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Cash-payment never was, or could except for a few years be, the union-bond of man to man. Cash never yet paid one man fully his deserts to another; nor could it, nor can it, now or henceforth to the end of the world. ~ Thomas Carlyle
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To me the Universe was all void of Life, of Purpose, of Volition, even of Hostility; it was one huge, dead, immeasurable Steam-engine, rolling on, in its dead indifference, to grind me limb from limb. Oh vast gloomy, solitary Golgotha, and Mill of Death! Why was the living banished thither companionless, conscious? Why, if there is no Devil; nay, unless the Devil is your God? ~ Thomas Carlyle
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The latest gospel in this world is, know thy work and do it. ~ Thomas Carlyle
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Authors are the vanguard in the march of mind, the intellectual backwoodsmen, reclaiming from the idle wilderness new territories for the thought and activity of their happier brethren. ~ Thomas Carlyle
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No magic Rune is stranger than a Book. All that Mankind has done, thought, gained or been: it is lying
as in magic preservation in the pages of Books. They are the chosen possession of men. ~ Thomas Carlyle
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Do not be embarrassed by your mistakes. Nothing can teach us better than our understanding of them. This is one of the best ways of self-education. ~ Thomas Carlyle
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Is not light grander than fire? ~ Thomas Carlyle
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Intellect is not speaking and logicising; it is seeing and ascertaining. ~ Thomas Carlyle
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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. ~ Thomas Carlyle
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Force, force, everywhere force; we ourselves a mysterious force in the centre of that. "There is not a leaf rotting on the highway but has Force in it: how else could it rot?" [As used in his time, by the word force, Carlyle means energy.] ~ Thomas Carlyle
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Labor is life: from the inmost heart of the worker rises his God-given force, the sacred celestial life-essence breathed into him by Almighty God! ~ Thomas Carlyle
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Silence is the eternal duty of man. ~ Thomas Carlyle
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Carlyle's genius was many-sided. He touched and ennobled the national life at all points. He lifted a whole generation of young men out of the stagnating atmosphere of materialism and dead orthodoxy into the region of the ideal. With the Master of Balliol, we believe that 'no English writer has done more to elevate and purify our ideas of life and to make us conscious that the things of the spirit are real, and that in the last resort there is no other reality. ~ Hector Carsewell Macpherson
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The mystery of a person, indeed, is ever divine to him that has a sense for the godlike. ~ Thomas Carlyle
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Pin thy faith to no man's sleeve. Hast thou not two eyes of thy own? ~ Thomas Carlyle
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No mortal has a right to wag his tongue, much less to wag his pen, without saying something. ~ Thomas Carlyle
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The true Sovereign of the world, who moulds the world like soft wax, according to his pleasure, is he who lovingly sees into the world. ~ Thomas Carlyle
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History, as it lies at the root of all science, is also the first distinct product of man's spiritual nature, his earliest expression of what may be called thought. ~ Thomas Carlyle
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We are not altogether here to tolerate. We are here to resist, to control and vanquish withal. ~ Thomas Carlyle
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A stammering man is never a worthless one. Physiology can tell you why. It is an excess of delicacy, excess of sensibility to the presence of his fellow creature, that makes him stammer. ~ Thomas Carlyle
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Man's unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite. ~ Thomas Carlyle
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It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see. ~ Thomas Carlyle
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THE greatest of English dramatists except Shakespeare, the first literary dictator and poet-laureate, a writer of verse, prose, satire, and criticism who most potently of all the men of his time affected the subsequent course of English letters: such was Ben Jonson, and as such his strong personality assumes an interest to us almost unparalleled, at least in his age. Ben Jonson came of the stock that was centuries after to give to the world Thomas Carlyle; for Jonson's grandfather was of Annandale, over the Solway, whence he ~ Ben Jonson
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Histories are as perfect as the Historian is wise, and is gifted with an eye and a soul. ~ Thomas Carlyle
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Silence is deep as Eternity, speech is shallow as Time. ~ Thomas Carlyle
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Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere. ~ Thomas Carlyle
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Today
So here hath been dawning
Another blue Day:
Think wilt thou let it
Slip useless away.
Out of Eternity
This new Day is born;
Into Eternity,
At night, will return.
Behold it aforetime
No eye ever did:
So soon it forever
From all eyes is hid.
Here hath been dawning
Another blue Day:
Think wilt thou let it
Slip useless away. ~ Thomas Carlyle
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If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded. ~ Thomas Carlyle
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Perfect ignorance is quiet, perfect knowledge is quiet; not so the transition from the former to the latter. ~ Thomas Carlyle
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Universal history, the history of what man has accomplished in this world, is at bottom the History of the Great Men who have worked here. ~ Thomas Carlyle
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Considering the multitude of mortals that handle the pen in these days, and can mostly spell, and write without glaring violations of grammar, the question naturally arises: How is it, then, that no work proceeds from them, bearing any stamp of authenticity and permanence; of worth for more than one day? ~ Thomas Carlyle
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We are to remember what an umpire Nature is; what a greatness, composure of depth and tolerance there is in her. You take wheat to cast into the Earth's bosom; your wheat may be mixed with chaff, chopped straw, barn-sweepings, dust and all imaginable rubbish; no matter: you cast it into the kind just Earth; she grows the wheat, - the whole rubbish she silently absorbs, shrouds it in, says nothing of the rubbish. ~ Thomas Carlyle
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Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure that there is one less scoundrel in the world. ~ Thomas Carlyle
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The greatest event for the world is the arrival of a new and wise person. ~ Thomas Carlyle
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Oh, give us the man who sings at his work. ~ Thomas Carlyle
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The times are very bad. Very well, you are there to make them better. ~ Thomas Carlyle
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It is in general more profitable to reckon up our defeats than to boast of our attainments. ~ Thomas Carlyle
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The actual well seen is ideal. ~ Thomas Carlyle
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Happy the people whose annals are vacant. ~ Thomas Carlyle
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Genuine Work alone, what thou workest faithfully, that is eternal, as the Almighty Founder and World-Builder himself. ~ Thomas Carlyle
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Success in life, in anything, depends upon the number of persons that one can make himself agreeable to. ~ Thomas Carlyle
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A frightful dialect for the stupid, the pedant and dullard sort. ~ Thomas Carlyle
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Such I hold to be the genuine use of Gunpowder: that it makes all men tall. ~ Thomas Carlyle
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Look to be treated by others as you have treated others. ~ Thomas Carlyle
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Eternity looks grander and kinder if time grow meaner and more hostile. ~ Thomas Carlyle
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Good Christian people, here lies for you an inestimable loan; take all heed thereof, in all carefulness, employ it: with high recompense, or else with heavy penalty, will it one day be required back. ~ Thomas Carlyle
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The grand result of schooling is a mind with just vision to discern, with free force to do: the grand schoolmaster is Practice. ~ Thomas Carlyle
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Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct. ~ Thomas Carlyle
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The true Church of England, at this moment, lies in the Editors of the newspapers. ~ Thomas Carlyle
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The greatest mistake is to imagine that we never err. ~ Thomas Carlyle
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Cease to brag to me of America, and its model institutions and constitutions. America, too, will have to strain its energies, crack its sinews, and all but break its heart, as the rest of us have had to do, in thousand-fold wrestle with the Pythons, and mud-demons, before it can become a babitation for the gods. ~ Thomas Carlyle
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To know, to get into the truth of anything, is ever a mystic art, of which the best logic's can but babble on the surface. ~ Thomas Carlyle
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A mind that has seen, and suffered, and done, speaks to us of what it has tried and conquered. ~ Thomas Carlyle
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Naps are a way of traveling painlessly through time into the future. ~ Thomas Carlyle
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Blessed be the God's voice; for it is true, and falsehoods have to cease before it! ~ Thomas Carlyle
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Nature, after all, is still the grand agent in making poets. ~ Thomas Carlyle
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Money will buy money's worth; but the thing men call fame, what is it? ~ Thomas Carlyle
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The choking, sweltering, deadly, and killing rule of no rule; the consecration of cupidity and braying of folly, and dim stupidity and baseness, in most of the affairs of men. Slopshirts attainable three-halfpence cheaper by the ruin of living bodies and immortal souls. ~ Thomas Carlyle
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We observe with confidence that the truly strong mind, view it as intellect or morality, or under any other aspect, is nowise the mind acquainted with its strength; that here the sign of health is unconsciousness. ~ Thomas Carlyle
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Heroism is the divine relation which, in all times, unites a great man to other men. ~ Thomas Carlyle
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Is there no God, then, but at best an absentee God, sitting idle, ever since the first Sabbath, at the outside of his Universe? ~ Thomas Carlyle
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The greatest of faults is to be conscious of none. ~ Thomas Carlyle
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The English historian Thomas Carlyle defined a person's religion as the set of values evident in his or her actions, regardless of what the individual would claim to believe when asked. ~ Terryl L. Givens
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That there should one man die ignorant who had capacity for knowledge, this I call a tragedy. ~ Thomas Carlyle
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No sooner does a great man depart, and leave his character as public property, than a crowd of little men rushes towards it. There they are gathered together, blinking up to it with such vision as they have, scanning it from afar, hovering round it this way and that, each cunningly endeavoring, by all arts, to catch some reflex of it in the little mirror of himself. ~ Thomas Carlyle
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The stifled hum of midnight, when traffic has lain down to rest, and the chariot wheels of Vanity, still rolling here and there through distant streets, are bearing her to halls roofed in and lighted to the due pitch for her; and only vice and misery, to prowl or to moan like night birds, are abroad. ~ Thomas Carlyle
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The Bible is the truest utterance that ever came by alphabetic letters from the soul of man, through which, as through a window divinely opened, all men can look into the stillness of eternity, and discern in glimpses their far-distant, long-forgotten home. ~ Thomas Carlyle
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