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THOMAS CARLYLE QUOTES
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)
British historian and essayist
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The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
THOMAS CARLYLE, Heroes and Hero-Worship
Great men are the inspired texts of that divine Book of Revelations, whereof a chapter is completed from epoch to epoch, and by some named History.
THOMAS CARLYLE, Sartor Resartus
Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such: it is an accident, not a property of a man.
What is all knowledge too but recorded experience?
THOMAS CARLYLE, Critical and Miscellaneous Essays
The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.
THOMAS CARLYLE, Heroes and Hero-Worship
Great is journalism. Is not every able editor a ruler of the world, being the persuader of it?
THOMAS CARLYLE, French Revolution
Language is called the garment of thought: however, it should rather be, language is the flesh-garment, the body, of thought.
THOMAS CARLYLE, Sartor Resartus
THOMAS CARLYLE, Latter-Day Pamphlets
Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.
THOMAS CARLYLE, Critical and Miscellaneous Essays
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, Signs of the Times
Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
THOMAS CARLYLE, Past and Present
Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do that with all thy might and leave the issues calmly to God.
THOMAS CARLYLE, letter to W. Graham, Mar. 29, 1844
A good book is the purest essence of a human soul.
THOMAS CARLYLE, speech in support of the London Library, 1840
A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun.
Man's unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite of him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite.
THOMAS CARLYLE, Sartor Resartus
Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.
If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he has to say, and make fun of it.
I don't pretend to understand the Universe -- it's a great deal bigger than I am.
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