Quotes by Thomas Carlyle

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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  • Men do less than they ought unless they do all that they can.
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  • Men's hearts ought not to be set against one another, but set with one another, and all against evil only.
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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.
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  • Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.
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  • No age seemed the age of romance to itself.
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  • No conquest can ever become permanent which does not show itself beneficial to the conquered as well as to the conquerors.
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  • No ghost was every seen by two pair of eyes.
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  • No good book or good thing of any kind shows it best face at first. No the most common quality of in a true work of art that has excellence and depth, is that at first sight it produces a certain disappointment.
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  • No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
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  • No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.
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  • No man sees far, most see no farther than their noses.
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  • No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.
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  • No person is important enough to make me angry.
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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.
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  • No pressure, no diamonds.
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  • No sadder proof can be given of a person's own tiny stature, than their disbelief in great people.
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  • No violent extreme endures.
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  • Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.
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  • Not on morality, but on cookery, let us build our stronghold: there brandishing our frying-pan, as censer, let us offer sweet incense to the Devil, and live at ease on the fat things he has provided for his elect!
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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.
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