Thomas Carlyle quotes - page 28

No good book, or good thing of any sort, shows its best face at first. (Thomas Carlyle)
Let a man try faithfully, manfully to be right, he will daily grow more and more right. It is at the bottom of the condition on which all men have to cultivate themselves. View quote
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Society is founded upon cloth. View quote
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A vein of poetry exists in the hearts of all men. View quote
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Clean undeniable right, clear undeniable might either of these once ascertained puts an end to battle. All battle is a confused experiment to ascertain one and both of these. View quote
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A judicious man uses statistics, not to get knowledge, but to save himself from having ignorance foisted upon him. View quote
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Of all Gods creatures, Man alone is poor. View quote
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Let him who wants to move and convince others be first moved and convinced himself. View quote
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There are but two ways of paying debt Increase of industry in raising income, increase of thrift in laying out. View quote
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The past is all holy to us the dead are all holy even they that were wicked when alive. View quote
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If those gentlemen would let me alone I should be much obliged to them. I would say, as Shakespeare would say... 'Sweet Friend, for Jesus sake forbear.' (Thomas Carlyle)
The Universe is but one vast symbol of God. View quote
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That monstrous tuberosity of civilized life, the capital of England. View quote
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We do everything by custom, even believe by it our very axioms, let us boast of free-thinking as we may, are oftenest simply such beliefs as we have never heard questioned. View quote
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For man is not the creature and product of Mechanism but, in a far truer sense, its creator and producer. View quote
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Virtue, like health, is the harmony of the whole man. View quote
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Oblivion is the dark page whereon memory writes her light-beam characters were it all light, nothing could be read there, any more than if it were all darkness. View quote
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Music is well said to be the speech of angels in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine. It brings us near to the infinite. View quote
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The man who cannot laugh is not only fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils, but his whole life is already a treason and a stratagem. View quote
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Let me have my own way in exactly everything, and a sunnier and pleasanter creature does not exist. View quote
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Not our logical faculty, but our imaginative one is king over us. I might say, priest and prophet to lead us to heaven-ward, or magician and wizard to lead us hellward. (Thomas Carlyle)
The glory of a workman, still more of a master workman, that he does his work well, ought to be his most precious possession like the honor of a soldier, dearer to him than life. View quote
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Over the times thou hast no power.... Solely over one man thou hast quite absolute power. Him redeem and make honest. View quote
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We have our little theory on all human and divine things. Poetry, the workings of genius itself, which, in all times, with one or another meaning, has been called Inspiration, and held to be mysterious and inscrutable, is no longer without its scientific exposition. The building of the lofty rhyme is like any other masonry or bricklaying we have theories of its rise, height, decline and fall -- which latter, it would seem, is now near, among all people. View quote
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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. View quote
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