Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
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Rich as we are in biography, a well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one; and there are certainly many more men whose history deserves to be recorded than persons willing and able to record it.
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No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.
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The end of Man is an Action, and not a Thought, though it were the noblest?
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High Air-castles are cunningly built of Words, the Words well bedded also in good Logic-mortar; wherein, however, no Knowledge will come to lodge.
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Hero-worship exists, has existed, and will forever exist, universally, among mankind.
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All deep things are song. It seems somehow the very central essence of us, song; as if all the rest were but wrappages and hulls!
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A dandy is a clothes-wearing man--a man whose trade, office, and existence consist in the wearing of clothes. Every faculty of his soul, spirit, person and purse is heroically consecrated to this one object--the wearing of clothes, wisely and well; so that, as others dress to live, he lives to dress.
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The soul gives unity to what it looks at with love.
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If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.
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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.
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Not what I have, but what I do is my kingdom.
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Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can.
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Faith is loyalty to some inspired teacher, some spiritual hero.
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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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They only are wise who know that they know nothing.
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Speech is of time, silence is of eternity.
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To believe practically that the poor and luckless are here only as a nusiance to be abraded and abated, and in some permissable manner made away with, and swept out of sight, is not an amiable faith.
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To be true is manly, chivalrous, Christian; to be false is mean, cowardly, devilish.
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A man's perfection is his work.
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The age of miracles is forever here.
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There is so much data available to us, but most data won't help us succeed.
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These Arabs, the man Mahomet, and that one century, - is it not as if a spark had fallen, one spark, on a world of what proves explosive powder, blazes heaven-high from Delhi to Granada! I said, the Great man was always as lightning out of Heaven; the rest of men waited for him like fuel, and then they too would flame.
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Is not light grander than fire? It is the same element in a state of purity.