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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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  • History is the distillation of rumor.
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  • History is the essence of innumerable biographies.
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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.
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  • I grow daily to honor facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing - a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.
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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.
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  • I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
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  • If a book comes from the heart it will contrive to reach other hearts. All art and author craft are of small account to that.
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  • If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?
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  • If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it.
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  • If the cut of the costume indicates intellect and talent, then the color indicates temper and heart.
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  • If there be no enemy there's no fight. If no fight, no victory and if no victory there is no crown.
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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.''
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  • If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated reading deserves to be read at all.
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  • If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.
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  • If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.
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  • If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.
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  • Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.
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  • Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere.
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  • In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.
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  • In books lies the soul of the whole past time.
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