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Thomas Carlyle

Thomas Carlyle

Scottish writer and historicus

Lived from: 1795 - 1881

Category: History and sociology | Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited Kingdom

Born: 4 december 1795 Died: 5 february 1881

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  • The world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was.
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  • There are but two ways of paying debt: Increase of industry in raising income, increase of thrift in laying out.
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  • There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.
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  • There is often more spiritual force in a proverb than in whole philosophical systems.
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  • Thought is the parent of the deed.
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  • Thought once awakened does not again slumber; unfolds itself into a System of Thought; grows, in man after man, generation after generation, till its full stature is reached, and such System of Thought can grow no farther, but must give place to another.
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  • 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.
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  • To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes.
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  • Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.
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  • True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.
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  • Variety is the condition of harmony.
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  • Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
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  • Virtue is, like health, the harmony of the whole man.
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  • We call it a Society; and go about professing openly the totalest separation, isolation. Our life is not a mutual helpfulness; but rather, cloaked under due laws-of-war, named ''fair competition'' and so forth, it is a mutual hostility.
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  • Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
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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?
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  • What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is the collection of books.
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  • What you see, but can't see over is as good as infinite.
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  • When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.
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  • When we can drain the Ocean into mill-ponds, and bottle up the Force of Gravity, to be sold by retail, in gas jars; then may we hope to comprehend the infinitudes of man's soul under formulas of Profit and Loss; and rule over this too, as over a patent engine, by checks, and valves, and balances.
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