Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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The soul gives unity to what it looks at with love.
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All evil is like a nightmare; the instant you stir under it, the evil is gone.
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Man is a tool-using animal.
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The true eye for talent presupposes the true reverence for it.
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One is hardly sensible of fatigue while he marches to music.
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Evil and good are everywhere, like shadow and substance; inseparable (for men) yet not hostile, only opposed.
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All that a university or final highest school. can do for us is still but what the first school began doing--teach us to read. We learn to read in various languages, in various sciences; we learn the alphabet and letters of all manner of books. But the place where we are to get knowledge, even theoretic knowledge, is the books themselves. It depends on what we read, after all manner of professors have done their best for us. The true university of these days is a collection of books.
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When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.
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He who would write heroic poems should make his whole life a heroic poem.
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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!
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Evil, once manfully fronted, ceases to be evil; there is generous battle-hope in place of dead, passive misery; the evil itself has become a kind of good.
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Once the mind has been expanded by a big idea, it will never go back to its original state.
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Pin thy faith to no man's sleeve. Hast thou not two eyes of thy own?
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The Christian must be consumed by the conviction of the infinite beauty of holiness and the infinite damnability of sin.
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Stop a moment, cease your work, and look around you.
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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.
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Wealth of a man is the number of things which he loves and blesses which he is loved and blessed by.
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History is the new poetry.
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To be true is manly, chivalrous, Christian; to be false is mean, cowardly, devilish.
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Democracy will prevail when men believe the vote of Judas as good as that of Jesus Christ.
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No ghost was every seen by two pair of eyes.
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Is not light grander than fire? It is the same element in a state of purity.
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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.
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Every man is my superior in that I may learn from him.