Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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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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Hero-worship exists, has existed, and will forever exist, universally, among mankind.
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A mind that has seen, and suffered, and done, speaks to us of what it has tried and conquered.
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Faith is loyalty to some inspired teacher, some spiritual hero.
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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.
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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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Once turn to practice, error and truth will no longer consort together.
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All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.
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If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.
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We have not read an author till we have seen his object, whatever it may be, as he saw it.
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Action hangs, as it were, dissolved in speech, in thoughts whereof speech is the shadow; and precipitates itself therefrom. The kind of speech in a man betokens the kind of action you will get from him.
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By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.
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They only are wise who know that they know nothing.
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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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The meaning of song goes deep. Who in logical words can explain the effect music has on us? A kind of inarticulate, unfathomable speech, which leads us to the edge of the infinite, and lets us for a moment gaze into that!
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Have not I myself known five hundred living soldiers sabred into crows' meat for a piece of glazed cotton, which they call their flag; which had you sold it at any market-cross, would not have brought above three groschen?
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Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.
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The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man; whatsoever he believes, he believes it for himself, not for another.
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He who cannot withal keep his mind to himself cannot practice any considerable thing whatsoever.
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Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.
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A lie should be trampled on and extinguished wherever found. I am for fumigating the atmosphere when I suspect that falsehood, like pestilence, breathes around me.
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The Christian must be consumed by the conviction of the infinite beauty of holiness and the infinite damnability of sin.