Thomas Carlyle quotes - page 26

The whole past is the procession of the present. (Thomas Carlyle)
The first sin in our universe was Lucifer's self conceit. View quote
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Man is emphatically a proselytizing creature. View quote
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The dust of controversy is merely the falsehood flying off. View quote
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The actual well seen is ideal. View quote
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Fancy that thou deservest to be hanged. . . thou wilt feel it happiness to be only shot fancy that thou deservest to be hanged in a hair halter, it will be a luxury to die in hemp. View quote
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A person with half volition goes backwards and forwards, but makes no progress on even the smoothest of roads. View quote
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Books are a triviality. Life alone is great. View quote
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Stern accuracy in inquiring, bold imagination in describing, these are the cogs on which history soars or flutters and wobbles. View quote
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A fair day's wages for a fair day's work. View quote
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Self-contemplation is infallibly the symptom of disease. (Thomas Carlyle)
Teaching school is but another word for sure and not very slow destruction. View quote
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In private life I never knew anyone interfere with other people's disputes but he heartily repented of it. View quote
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What is philosophy but a continual battle against custom. View quote
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In a symbol there is concealment and yet revelation here therefore, by silence and by speech acting together, comes a double significance. . . View quote
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All evil is like a nightmare the instant you stir under it, the evil is gone. View quote
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The deepest depth of vulgarism is that of setting up money as the ark of the covenant. View quote
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There is no permanent place in this universe for evil... Evil may hide behind this fallacy and that, but it will be hunted from fallacy to fallacy until there is no more fallacy for it to hide behind. View quote
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Freedom is the one purport, wisely aimed at, or unwisely, of all man's struggles, toilings and sufferings, in this earth. View quote
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What are your historical Facts still more your biographical Wilt thou know a Man. . . by stringing-together beadrolls of what thou namest Facts. View quote
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To the vulgar eye, few things are wonderful that are not distant. (Thomas Carlyle)
Properly speaking, all true work is religion. View quote
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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. View quote
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The wise man is but a clever infant, spelling letters from a hieroglyphical prophetic book, the lexicon of which lies in eternity. View quote
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How much lies in laughter the cipher key, wherewith we decipher the whole man. View quote
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