Thomas Carlyle quotes - page 27

The sincere alone can recognize sincerity. (Thomas Carlyle)
Just in ratio as knowledge increases, faith diminishes. View quote
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But deepest of all illusory Appearances, for hiding Wonder, as for many other ends, are your two grand fundamental world-enveloping Appearances, SPACE and TIME. These, as spun and woven for us from before Birth itself, to clothe our celestial ME for dwelling here, and yet to blind it, lie all-embracing, as the universal canvas, or warp and woof, whereby all minor Illusions, in this Phantasm Existence, weave and paint themselves. In vain, while here on Earth, shall you endeavor to strip them off; you can, at best, but rend them asunder for moments, and look through. View quote
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Reality, if rightly interpreted, is grander than fiction. View quote
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Song is the heroics of speech. View quote
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Give us, O give us the man who sings at his work Be his occupation what it may, he is equal to any of those who follow the same pursuit in silent sullenness. He will do more in the same time ... he will do it better ... he will persevere longer. One is scarcely sensible to fatigue while he marches to music. The very stars are said to make harmony as they revolve in their spheres. View quote
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To the mean eye all things are trivial, as certainly as to the jaundiced they are yellow. View quote
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Variety is the condition of harmony. View quote
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Biography is the only true history. View quote
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The devil has his elect. View quote
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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. (Thomas Carlyle)
It is not a lucky word, this name impossible no good comes of those who have it so often in their mouths. View quote
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The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized By man ever dies, or can die but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change. View quote
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I call the book of Job, apart from all theories about it, one of the grandest things ever written with the pen. View quote
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Conclusive facts are inseparable from inconclusive except by a head that already understands and knows. View quote
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Out of the lowest depths there is a path to the loftiest heights. View quote
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The world is an old woman, and mistakes any gilt farthing for a gold coin whereby being often cheated, she will thenceforth trust nothing but the common copper. View quote
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There is no life of a man, faithfully recorded, but is a heroic poem of its sort, rhymed or unrhymed. View quote
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No nobler feeling than this, of admiration for one higher than himself, dwells in the breast of man. It is to this hour, and at all hours, the vivifying influence in man's life. View quote
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No age seemed the age of romance to itself. View quote
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One is hardly sensible of fatigue while he marches to music. (Thomas Carlyle)
Lives there the man that can figure a naked Duke of Windlestraw addressing a naked House of Lords. View quote
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The depth of our despair measures what capability and height of claim we have to hope. View quote
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I have seen gleams in the face and eyes of the man that have let you look into a higher country. View quote
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The king is the man who can. View quote
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