Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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God Almighty never created a man half as wise as he looks.
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He who takes not counsel of the Unseen and Silent, from him will never come real visibility and speech.
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One seems to believe almost all that they believe; and when they stop short and call it a Religion, and you pass on, and call it only a reminiscence of one, should you not part with the kiss of peace?
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The suffering man ought really to consume his own smoke; there is no good in emitting smoke till you have made it into fire.
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The eternal stars shine out again, so soon as it is dark enough.
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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.
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Heroism is the divine relation which, in all times, unites a great man to other men.
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Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.
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Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.
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Literature is the thought of thinking souls.
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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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Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.
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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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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?
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To say that we have a clear conscience is to utter a solecism; had we never sinned we should have had no conscience. Were defeat unknown, neither would victory be celebrated by songs of triumph.
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He is wise who can instruct us and assist us in the business of virtuous living.
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I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
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Worship of a hero is transcendent admiration of a great man.
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That there should one man die ignorant who had capacity for knowledge, this I call a tragedy.
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If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated readings deserves to be read at all.