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What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
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Thomas Carlyle (On Heroes, Hero Worship and the Heroic in History)
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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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Thomas Carlyle
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I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
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Thomas Carlyle
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All that mankind has done, thought, gained, or been; it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.
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Thomas Carlyle
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Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you'll be able to see further.
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Thomas Carlyle
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A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.
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Thomas Carlyle
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My books are friends that never fail me."
(Letter to his mother, Margaret A. Carlyle; 17 March 1817)
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Thomas Carlyle
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Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.
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Thomas Carlyle
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Tell a man he is brave, and you help him to become so.
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Thomas Carlyle
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Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure that there is one less scoundrel in the world.
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Thomas Carlyle (On Heroes, Hero Worship and the Heroic in History)
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The tragedy of life is not so much what
men suffer, but rather what they miss.
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Thomas Carlyle
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Every man is my superior in that I may learn from him.
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Thomas Carlyle
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Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.
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Thomas Carlyle
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A good book is the purest essence of a human soul.
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Thomas Carlyle
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Silence is deep as Eternity, speech is shallow as Time.
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Thomas Carlyle
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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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Thomas Carlyle
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The lies (Western slander) which well-meaning zeal has heaped round this man (Muhammad) are disgraceful to ourselves only.
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Thomas Carlyle (On Heroes, Hero Worship and the Heroic in History)
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A man lives by believing something; not by debating and arguing about many things.
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Thomas Carlyle
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Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are
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Thomas Carlyle
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Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
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Thomas Carlyle
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A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men.
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Thomas Carlyle
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Of all your troubles, great and small, the greatest are the ones that don't happen at all.
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Thomas Carlyle
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The word of Mohammad is a voice direct from nature's own heart - all else is wind in comparison.
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Thomas Carlyle
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The greatest of faults is to be conscious of none.
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Thomas Carlyle
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The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.
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Thomas Carlyle
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The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self activity.
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Thomas Carlyle
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Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.
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Thomas Carlyle
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A person usually has two reasons for doing something, a good reason and the real reason.
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Thomas Carlyle
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The true University of these days is a Collection of Books.
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Thomas Carlyle (On Heroes, Hero Worship and the Heroic in History)
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Silence is more eloquent than words.
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Thomas Carlyle
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The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak becomes a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.
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Thomas Carlyle
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Have a purpose in life, and having it, throw into your work such strength of mind and muscle as God has given you.
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Thomas Carlyle
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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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Thomas Carlyle
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It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.
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Thomas Carlyle
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One life - a little gleam of Time between two Eternities.
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Thomas Carlyle
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History is the essence of innumerable biographies.
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Thomas Carlyle
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Every noble work is at first impossible.
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Thomas Carlyle
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When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with its fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.
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Thomas Carlyle
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In books lies the soul of the whole Past Time: the articulate audible voice of the Past, when the body and material substance of it has altogether vanished like a dream.
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Thomas Carlyle
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Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with
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Thomas Carlyle
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(Quoted by Thomas Carlyle) The rude man requires only to see something going on. The man of more refinement must be made to feel. The man of complete refinement must be made to reflect.
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Thomas Carlyle
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Wonder is the basis of worship.
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Thomas Carlyle
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The history of the world is but a biography of great men.
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Thomas Carlyle
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In books lies the soul fo the whole past time.
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Thomas Carlyle (On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History)
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May blessings be upon the head of Cadmus, the Phoenicians, or whoever it was that invented books.
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Thomas Carlyle
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Of all the acts of man, repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults . . . is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle)
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Thomas Carlyle
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The English historian Thomas Carlyle defined a personโs religion as the set of values evident in his or her actions, regardless of what the individual would claim to believe when asked.
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Terryl L. Givens (The Crucible of Doubt)
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If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.
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Thomas Carlyle
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Manโs unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite.
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Thomas Carlyle
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If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated readings deserves to be read at all.
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Thomas Carlyle (Essays On Goethe)
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Fame is no sure test of merit.
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Thomas Carlyle
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Love is ever the beginning of knowledge as fire is of light.
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Thomas Carlyle
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There needs not a great soul to make a hero; there needs a god-created soul which will be true to its origin; that will be a great soul!
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Thomas Carlyle (On Heroes, Hero Worship and the Heroic in History)
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No pressure, no diamonds.
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Thomas Carlyle
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Of our thinking it is but the upper surface that we shape into articulate thought; underneath the region of argument and conscious discourse lies the region of meditation.
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Thomas Carlyle
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For a hundred that can bear adversity, there is hardly one that can bear prosperity.
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Thomas Carlyle
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No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offense.
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Thomas Carlyle (Signs of the Times)
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Let me have my own way in exactly everything and a sunnier and pleasanter creature does not exist.
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Thomas Carlyle
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Literature is the thought of thinking souls.
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Thomas Carlyle
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Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better.
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Thomas Carlyle
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Bright, heroic, tender, true and noble was that lost treasure of my heart, who faithfully accompanied me in all the rocky ways and climbings; and I am forever poor without her.
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Thomas Carlyle (The Love Letters of Thomas Carlyle and Jane Welsh)
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Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
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Thomas Carlyle
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The crash of the whole solar and stellar systems could only kill you once.
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Thomas Carlyle
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The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
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Thomas Carlyle
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The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against disbelief
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Thomas Carlyle
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The greatest of faults...is to be conscious of none.
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Thomas Carlyle
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Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragement, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.
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If you are ever in doubt as to whether or not you should kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of the doubt.
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Thomas Carlyle
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The merit of originality is not novelty, it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man.
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Thomas Carlyle
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Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness; on the confines of two everlasting empires, necessity and free will.
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Thomas Carlyle
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In every object there is inexhaustible meaning.
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Thomas Carlyle
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Idleness is worst, Idleness alone is without hope: work earnestly at anything, you will by degrees learn to work at almost all things. There is endless hope in work, were it even work at making money.
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Thomas Carlyle (Past and Present)
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This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle; wonderful, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.
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Thomas Carlyle
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Look to be treated by others as you have treated others.
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Thomas Carlyle
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Intellect is not speaking and logicising; it is seeing and ascertaining.
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Thomas Carlyle (On Heroes, Hero Worship and the Heroic in History)
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Of all the paths a man could strike into, there is, at any given moment, a best path .. A thing which, here and now, it were of all things wisest for him to do .. To find this path, and walk in it, is the one thing needful for him.
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Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can.
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Thomas Carlyle
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Man is a tool using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.
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Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.
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Thomas Carlyle
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I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
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Thomas Carlyle
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Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom.
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Thomas Carlyle (Sartor Resartus)
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In every object there is inexhaustible meaning; the eye sees in it what the eye brings means of seeing.
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Thomas Carlyle
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War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle; therefore they take boys from one village and another village, stick them into uniforms, equip them with guns, and let them loose like wild beasts against one other.
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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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It is a great shame for anyone to listen to the accusation that Islam is a lie and that Muhammad was a fabricator and a deceiver. We saw that he remained steadfast upon his principles, with firm determination; kind and generous, compassionate, pious, virtuous, with real manhood, hardworking and sincere. Besides all these qualities, he was lenient with others, tolerant, kind, cheerful and praiseworthy and perhaps he would joke and tease his companions. He was just, truthful, smart, pure, magnanimous and present-minded; his face was radiant as if he had lights within him to illuminate the darkest of nights; he was a great man by nature who was not educated in a school nor nurtured by a teacher as he was not in need of any of this.
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Thomas Carlyle (On Heroes, Hero Worship and the Heroic in History)
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Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man, but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.
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Thomas Carlyle
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Hunger whets everything, especially Suspicion and Indignation.
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Thomas Carlyle (The French Revolution)
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Well at ease are the Sleepers for whom Existence is a shallow Dream.
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Thomas Carlyle (Sartor Resartus)
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Democracy will prevail when men believe the vote of Judas as good as that of Jesus Christ
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I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken.
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Oliver Cromwell (Oliver Cromwell's Letters And Speeches: With Elucidations By Thomas Carlyle: In Three Volumes, Volume 2)
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History of the world is the biography of the great man. And I said: The great man always act like a thunder. He storms the skies, while others are waiting to be stormed.
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Thomas Carlyle
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When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent.
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You may take my purse; but I cannot have my moral Self annihilated. The purse is any Highwayman's who might meet me with a loaded pistol: but the Self is mine and God my Maker's; it is not yours; and I will resist you to the death, and revolt against you ...
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Thomas Carlyle (On Heroes, Hero Worship and the Heroic in History)
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Every poet... finds himself born in the midst of prose. He has to struggle from the littleness and obstruction of an actual world into the freedom and infinitude of an ideal.
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Thomas Carlyle
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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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Thomas Carlyle
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I fear no hell, just as I expect no heaven. Nabokov summed up a nonbelieverโs view of the cosmos, and our place in it, thus: โThe cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.โ The 19th-century Scottish historian Thomas Carlyle put it slightly differently: โOne life. A little gleam of Time between two Eternities.โ Though I have many memories to cherish, I value the present, my time on earth, those around me now. I miss those who have departed, and recognize, painful as it is, that I will never be reunited with them. There is the here and now โ no more. But certainly no less. Being an adult means, as Orwell put it, having the โpower of facing unpleasant facts.โ True adulthood begins with doing just that, with renouncing comforting fables. There is something liberating in recognizing ourselves as mammals with some fourscore years (if weโre lucky) to make the most of on this earth.
There is also something intrinsically courageous about being an atheist. Atheists confront death without mythology or sugarcoating. That takes courage.
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His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge. Of contemporary literature, philosophy and politics he appeared to know next to nothing. Upon my quoting Thomas Carlyle, he inquired in the naivest way who he might be and what he had done.
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Arthur Conan Doyle (A Study in Scarlet (Sherlock Holmes, #1))
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Does it ever give thee pause that men used to have a soul? Not by hearsay alone, or as a figure of speech, but as a thruth that they knew and acted upon. Verily it was another world then, but yet it is a pity we have lost the tidings of our souls. We shall have to go in search of them again or worse in all ways shall befall us.
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Thomas Carlyle
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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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Thomas Carlyle
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Thirty million, mostly fools.
[When asked the population of England]
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ููุณ ููุง ุฃู ูุชุทูุน ุฅูู ูุฏูู ูููุญ ููุง ุจุงูุชุงู ู
ู ุจุนุฏ ุ ูุฅูู
ุง ุนูููุง ุฃู ููุฌุฒ ู
ุง ุจูู ุฃูุฏููุง ู
ู ุนู
ู ูุงุถุญ ุจูููู.
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The whole universe is but a huge Symbol of god".
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A well-written life is almost as rare as one well-spent.
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Thomas Carlyle
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Wondrous indeed is the virtue of a true Book.
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Thomas Carlyle (Sartor Resartus)
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A Dandy is a clothes-wearing Man, a Man whose trade, office and existence consists in the wearing of clothes.
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Thomas Carlyle (Sartor Resartus)
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Literature, so far as it is Literature, is an โapocalypse of Nature,โ a revealing of the โopen secret.
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Thomas Carlyle (On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History)
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The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none. โhistorian and essayist Thomas Carlyle
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Carol Tavris (Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts)
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Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand. Thomas Carlyle
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If something be not done, something will do itself one day, and in a fashion that will please nobody
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Any the smallest alteration of my silent daily habits produces anarchy in me
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Thomas Carlyle
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Endurance is patience concentrated.
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Thomas Carlyle
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the worst waste, that of time.
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Thomas Carlyle (Sartor Resartus)
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know a Work of Art from a Daub of Artifice)
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Thomas Carlyle (Sartor Resartus)
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Speech is of Time, Silence is of Eternity.
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Thomas Carlyle (Sartor Resartus)
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This need to know things at the level of basic experience, and the reluctance to be fobbed off by the official story or the popular rumor, was a part of the โinfinite capacity for taking painsโ that Thomas Carlyle once described as the constituent of genius.
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OH, Heaven,it is mysterious,it is awful to consider
that we not only carry a future Ghost within us. but
are,in very deed, GHOSTS !
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Thomas Carlyle
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The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.
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Thomas Carlyle (Collected Works of Thomas Carlyle)
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Keine zauberwirkende Rune ist wunderbarer als ein Buch. Bรผcher sind das auserlesene Besitztum der Menschen.
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Thomas Carlyle
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It is a mathematical fact that the casting of this pebble from my hand alters the centre of gravity of the universe.
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Thomas Carlyle
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To men in their sleep there is nothing granted in this world.
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Thomas Carlyle
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Great men taken up in any way are profitable company. We cannot look, however imperfectly, upon a great man without gaining something by him.
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Thomas Carlyle
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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist
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Thomas Carlyle
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Such I hold to be the genuine use of Gunpowder: that it makes all men tall.
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Thomas Carlyle (Sartor Resartus)
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Not what I Have," continues he, "but what I Do is my Kingdom.
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Thomas Carlyle (Sartor Resartus)
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We looked out on Life, with its strange scaffolding,
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Thomas Carlyle (Sartor Resartus)
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Happy the people whose annals are blank in history books.
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Thomas Carlyle (History of Friedrich II of Prussia)
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The ideal is within you, and the obstacle to reaching this ideal is also within you. You already possess all the material from which to create your ideal self. โTHOMAS CARLYLE
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A stammering man is never a worthless one. Physiology can tell you why. It is an excess of delicacy, excess of sensibility to the presence of his fellow creature, that makes him stammer.
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Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together; that at length they may emerge, full-formed and majestic, into the daylight of Life, which they are thenceforth to rule. Not William the Silent only, but all the considerable men I have known, and the most undiplomatic and unstrategic of these, forbore to babble of what they were creating and projecting. Nay, in thy own mean perplexities, do thou thyself but hold thy tongue for one day: on the morrow, how much clearer are thy purposes and duties; what wreck and rubbish have those mute workmen within thee swept away, when intrusive noises were shut out! Speech is too often not, as the Frenchman defined it, the art of concealing Thought; but of quite stifling and suspending Thought, so that there is none to conceal. Speech too is great, but not the greatest. As the Swiss Inscription says: Sprecfien ist silbern, Schweigen ist golden (Speech is silvern, Silence is golden); or as I might rather express it: Speech is of Time, Silence is of Eternity.
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Thomas Carlyle (Sartor Resartus)
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The Poet who could merely sit on a chair, and compose stanzas, would never make a stanza worth much. He could not sing the Heroic warrior, unless he himself were at least a Heroic warrior too.
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Thomas Carlyle (On Heroes, Hero Worship and the Heroic in History)
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Strange enough how creatures of the human-kind shut their eyes to plainest facts; and by the mere inertia of Oblivion and Stupidity, live at ease in the midst of Wonders and Terrors. But indeed man is, and was always, a blockhead and dullard; much readier to feel and digest, than to think and consider.
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Today
So here hath been dawning
Another blue Day:
Think wilt thou let it
Slip useless away.
Out of Eternity
This new Day is born;
Into Eternity,
At night, will return.
Behold it aforetime
No eye ever did:
So soon it forever
From all eyes is hid.
Here hath been dawning
Another blue Day:
Think wilt thou let it
Slip useless away.
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The illimitable, silent, never-resting thing called Time, rolling, rushing on, swift, silent, like an all-embracing ocean-tide, on which we and all the Universe swim like exhalations, like apparitions which are, and then are not: this is forever very literally a miracle; a thing to strike us dumbโfor we have no word to speak about it.
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Some comfort it would have been, could I, like a Faust, have fancied myself tempted and tormented of the Devil; for a Hell, as I imagine, without Life, though only Diabolic Life, were more frightful: but in our age of Downpulling and Disbelief, the very Devil has been pulled down, you cannot so much as believe in a Devil. To me the Universe was all void of Life, of Purpose, of Volition, even of Hostility: it was one huge, dead, immeasurable Steam-engine, rolling on, in its dead indifference, to grind me limb from limb.
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His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge. Of contemporary literature, philosophy and politics he appeared to know next to nothing. Upon my quoting Thomas Carlyle, he inquired in the naivest way who he might be and what he had done. My surprise reached a climax, however, when I found incidentally that he was ignorant of the Copernican Theory and of the composition of the Solar System. That any civilized human being in this nineteenth century should not be aware that the earth travelled round the sun appeared to be to me such an extraordinary fact that I could hardly realize it. "You appear to be astonished," he said, smiling at my expression of surprise. "Now that I do know it I shall do my best to forget it." "To forget it!" "You see," he explained, "I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose. A fool takes in all the lumber of every sort that he comes across, so that the knowledge which might be useful to him gets crowded out, or at best is jumbled up with a lot of other things so that he has a difficulty in laying his hands upon it. Now the skillful workman is very careful indeed as to what he takes into his brain-attic. He will have nothing but the tools which may help him in doing his work, but of these he has a large assortment, and all in the most perfect order. It is a mistake to think that that little room has elastic walls and can distend to any extent. Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones." "But the Solar System!" I protested. "What the deuce is it to me?" he interrupted impatiently; "you say that we go round the sun. If we went round the moon it would not make a pennyworth of difference to me or to my work.
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Arthur Conan Doyle (Sherlock Holmes: The Ultimate Collection)
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Surely of all โrights of manโ, this right of the ignorant man to be guided by the wiser, to be, gently or forcibly, held in the true course by him, is the indisputablest.
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Thomas Carlyle
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The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.
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Thomas Carlyle
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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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Thomas Carlyle
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The greatest university is a collection of books.
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Thomas Carlyle
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A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.
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Thomas Carlyle
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The tragedy of life is not so much what we suffer but what we miss.
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Thomas Carlyle
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Go as far as you can see; when you get there you'll be able to see farther.
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Books are a triviality. Life alone is great.
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Thomas Carlyle
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Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
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Thomas Carlyle
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Ever in the dullest existence there is a sheen either of Inspiration or of Madness
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Thomas Carlyle (Sartor Resartus)
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There are impertinent inquiries made; your rule is, to leave the inquirer uninformed on the matter; not, if you can help it, misinformed, but precisely as dark as he was!
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Thomas Carlyle (On Heroes, Hero Worship and the Heroic in History)
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All things that have been in this world, all things that are or will be in it, have to vanish: we have our sad farewell to give them.
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Thomas Carlyle (On Heroes, Hero Worship and the Heroic in History)
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The suffering man ought really to consume his own smoke; there is no good in emitting smoke till you have made it into fire.
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Thomas Carlyle (On Heroes, Hero Worship and the Heroic in History)
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Produce! Produce! Were it but the pitifullest infinitesimal fraction of a Product,
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Thomas Carlyle (Sartor Resartus)
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No magic Rune is stranger than a Book. All that Mankind has done, thought, gained or been: it is lying
as in magic preservation in the pages of Books. They are the chosen possession of men.
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Thomas Carlyle
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He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything
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Thomas Carlyle
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Una vez despertado el pensamiento no vuelve a dormitar.
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Thomas Carlyle
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Music is well said to be the speech of angels
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Thomas Carlyle
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One life; a little gleam of Time between two Eternities; no second chance to us for evermore!
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Thomas Carlyle (The Works of Thomas Carlyle Volume 26: Critical and Miscellaneous Essays I)
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ะะตะปะธัะธะต ะฒะตะปะธะบะพะณะพ ัะตะปะพะฒะตะบะฐ ะพะฑะฝะฐััะถะธะฒะฐะตััั ะฒ ัะพะผ, ะบะฐะบ ะพะฝ ะพะฑัะฐัะฐะตััั ั ะผะฐะปะตะฝัะบะธะผะธ ะปัะดัะผะธ.
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Thomas Carlyle
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What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
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Thomas Carlyle
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Akan jadi apakah kita, bergantung pada apa yang kita baca setelah semua profesor menyelesaikan urusannya dengan kita
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Thomas Carlyle
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All that Mankind has done, thought, gained or been is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of Books. They are the chosen possession of men.
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Thomas Carlyle
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But indeed nobody knows what inarticulate traditions, remnants of old wisdom, priceless though quite anonymous, survive in many modern things that still have life in them.
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Thomas Carlyle (Latter-Day Pamphlets)
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The eternal stars shine out again, so soon as it is dark enough.
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Thomas Carlyle (Past and Present)
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To a shower of gold most things are penetrable.
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Thomas Carlyle (The French Revolution: A History (Modern Library Classics))
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Counsel dwells not under the plumed hat.
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Thomas Carlyle (The French Revolution: A History (Modern Library Classics))
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Find a man whose words paint you a likeness, you have found a man worth something; mark his manner of doing it, as very characteristic of him.
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Thomas Carlyle (On Heroes and Hero Worship and the Heroic in History)
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Whatever opinion may be formed of the extent of his dissipation in Dumfries, one fact is unquestionable, that his powers remained unimpaired to the last; it was there he produced his finest lyrics, and they are the finest, as well as the purest, that ever delighted mankind.
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Thomas Carlyle (Life of Robert Burns)
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It is a thing forever changing, this of Hero-worship: different in each age, difficult to do well in any age. Indeed, the heart of the whole business of the age, one may say, is to do it well.
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Thomas Carlyle (On Heroes, Hero Worship and the Heroic in History)
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Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together; that at length they may emerge, full-formed and majestic, into the daylight of Life, which they are thenceforth to rule.
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Thomas Carlyle (Sartor Resartus)
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Does it ever give thee pause, that men used to have a soul- not by hearsay along, or as a figure of speech; but as a truth that they knew, and acted upon! Verily it was another world then... but yet it is a pity we have lost the tidings of our souls... we shall have to go in search of them again, or worse in all ways shall befall us.
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Thomas Carlyle
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...true religion is a way of life; a church is an institution designed to strengthen people in the exercise of that life. The English historian Thomas Carlyle defined a person's religion as the set of values evident in his or her actions, regardless of what the individual would claim to believe when asked. Our behavior is always oriented around a goal, a set of desires and aspirations, even if we are not always fully aware of them--or willing to own them.
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Terryl L. Givens (The Crucible of Doubt: Reflections On the Quest for Faith)
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In the true Literary Man there is thus ever, acknowledged or not by the world, a sacredness: he is the light of the world; the world's Priest; -- guiding it, like a sacred Pillar of Fire, in its dark pilgrimage through the waste of Time.
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Thomas Carlyle
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Fool! The Ideal is in thyself, the impediment too is in thyself: thy Condition is but the stuff thou art to shape that same Ideal out of: what matters whether such stuff be of this sort or that, so the Form thou give it be heroic, be poetic? O thou that pinest in the imprisonment of the Actual, and criest bitterly to the gods for a kingdom wherein to rule and create, know this of a truth: the thing thou seekest is already with thee, โhere or nowhere,โ couldst thou only see!
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Thomas Carlyle (Sartor Resartus)
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The situation that has not its Duty, its Ideal, was never yet occupied by man. Yes here, in this poor, miserable, hampered, despicable Actual, wherein thou even now standest, here or nowhere is thy Ideal: work it out therefrom; and working, believe, live, be free.
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Thomas Carlyle (Sartor Resartus)
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THE greatest of English dramatists except Shakespeare, the first literary dictator and poet-laureate, a writer of verse, prose, satire, and criticism who most potently of all the men of his time affected the subsequent course of English letters: such was Ben Jonson, and as such his strong personality assumes an interest to us almost unparalleled, at least in his age. Ben Jonson came of the stock that was centuries after to give to the world Thomas Carlyle; for Jonson's grandfather was of Annandale, over the Solway, whence he
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Ben Jonson (Every Man out of His Humour)
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For ours is a most fictile world; and man is the most fingent plastic of creatures. A world not fixable; not fathomable! An unfathomable Somewhat, which is Not me; which we can work with, and live amidst--and model, miraculously in our miraculous Being, and name World.
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Thomas Carlyle
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Truly a Thinking Man is the worst enemy the Prince of Darkness can have; every time such a one announces himself, I doubt not, there runs a shudder through the Nether Empire; and new Emissaries are trained, with new tactics, to, if possible, entrap him, and hoodwink and handcuff him.
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Thomas Carlyle (Sartor Resartus)
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ูุฃู ุฏููู ุฃุดูุฑ ุจุจุฑุงุกุฉ ุงูุฅุณูุงู
ู
ู ุงูู
ูู ุฅูู ุงูู
ูุงุฐ ู
ู ุดูุฑ ุฑู
ุถุงู ุชูุฌู
ููู ุงูุดููุงุชุ ูุชุฒุฌุฑ ุงูููุณ ุนู ุบุงูุงุชูุงุ ูุชูุฑุน ุนู ู
ุขุฑุจูุงุ
ููุฐุง ูู ู
ูุชูู ุงูุนูู ูุงูุญุฒู
. ูุฅู ู
ุจุงุดุฑุฉ ุงููุฐุงุช ููุณ ุจุงูู
ููุฑ. ูุฅูู
ุง ุงูู
ููุฑ ูู ุฃู ุชุฐู ุงูููุณ ูุฌุจุงุฑ ุงูุดููุงุชุ ูุชููุงุฏ ูุญุงุฏู ุงูุฃูุทุงุฑ ูุงูุฑุบุจุงุช.
ููุนู ุฃู
ุฌุฏ ุงูุฎุตุงู ูุฃุดุฑู ุงูู
ูุงุฑู
ูู ุฃู ูููู ููู
ุฑุก ู
ู ููุณู ุนูู ููุณู ุณูุทุงูุ ูุฃู ูุฌุนู ู
ู ูุฐุงุชู ูุง ุณูุงุณู ูุฃุบูุงูุง ุชุนูุจู ูุชุนุชุงุต ุนููู ุฅุฐุง ูู
ุฃู ูุตุฏุนูุงุ ุจู ุญููููููุง ูุฒุฎุงุฑู ู
ุชู ุดุงุก ููุง ุฃููู ุนููู ู
ู ุฎูุนูุงุ ููุง ุฃุณูู ู
ู ูุฒุนูุง.
ููุฐูู ุฃู
ุฑ ุฑู
ุถุงู ุณูุงุก ูุงู ู
ูุตูุฏุง ู
ู ู
ุญู
ุฏ ู
ุนูููุงุ ุฃู ูุงู ูุญู ุงูุบุฑูุฒุฉ ูุฅููุงู
ูุง ูุทุฑูููุง ููู ูุงููู ูุนู
ุงูุฃู
ุฑ
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Thomas Carlyle (On Heroes, Hero Worship and the Heroic in History)
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To our less philosophical readers, for example, it is now clear that the so passionate Teufelsdrockh precipitated through "a shivered Universe" in this extraordinary way, has only one of three things which he can next do: Establish himself in Bedlam; begin writing Satanic Poetry; or blow out his brains.
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Thomas Carlyle (Sartor Resartus)
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From his youth Burns had exhibited ominous symptoms of a radical disorder in his constitution. A palpitation of the heart, and a derangement of the digestive organs, were conspicuous. These were, doubtless, increased by his indulgences, which became more frequent as he drew towards the close of his career.
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Thomas Carlyle (Life of Robert Burns)
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Carlyle thought little of these Essays. "Wretched lives" is his best word for them when he is bilious and the world is all gloom; but when in another place he confesses that he was seldom happier than when writing them, we may take his condemnation as he did his bile, "with a drop of oil and a grain of salt.
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Thomas Carlyle (Montaigne)
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let him who gropes painfully in darkness or uncertain light, and prays vehemently that the dawn may ripen into day, lay this other precept well to heart, which to me was of invaluable service: โDo the duty which lies nearest thee,โ which thou knowest to be a Duty! Thy second duty will already have become clearer.
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Thomas Carlyle (Sartor Resartus)
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Ye are most strong, ye Sons of the icy North, of the far East, far marching from your rugged Eastern Wildernesses, hither-ward from the gray Dawn of Time! Ye are Sons of the Jotun-land; the land of Difficulties Conquered. Difficult? You
must try this thing. Once try it with the understanding that it will and shall have to be done. Try it as ye try the paltrier thing, making of money! I will bet on you once more, against all Jo'tuns, Tailor-gods, Double-barrelled Law-wards, and Denizens of Chaos whatsoever!
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Thomas Carlyle (Past and Present)
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Venerable to me is the hard hand; crooked & coarse; wherein notwithstanding lies a cunning virtue indefeasibly royal as the Scepter of this Planet. Hardly entreated Brother! For us was thy way so bent, for us were thy straight limb & fingers so deformed; thou wert our Conscript on whom the lot fell, & fighting our battles wert so marred. For in thee too lay a God-created Form, but it is not unfolded. Encrusted must it stand with the thick adhesions & defacements of labor, & thy body, thy soul, was no to know Freedom.
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Thomas Carlyle (Sartor Resartus)
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Blessed be the inventor of photography! I set him above even the inventor of chloroform! It has given more positive pleasure to po or suffering humanity than anything else that has "cast up" in my time or is like to--this art by which even the "poor" can possess themselves of tolerable likenesses of their absent dear ones. And mustn't it be acting favourably on the morality of the country?
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Jane Welsh Carlyle (The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle: July 1847-March 1848)
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The unquietest humour possesses all men; ferments, seeks issue, in pamphleteering, caricaturing, projecting, declaiming; vain jangling of thought, word and deed. It is Spiritual Bankruptcy, long tolerated; verging now towards Economical Bankruptcy, and become intolerable. For from the lowest dumb rank, the inevitable misery, as was predicted, has spread upwards. In every man is some obscure feeling that his position, oppressive or else oppressed, is a false one: all men, in one or the other acrid dialect, as assaulters or as defenders, must give vent to the unrest that is in them. Of such stuff national well-being, and the glory of rulers, is not made.
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Thomas Carlyle (The French Revolution: A History (Modern Library Classics))
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Look around you. Your world-hosts are all in mutiny, in confusion, destitution; on the eve of fiery wreck and madness! They will not march farther for you, on the sixpence a day and supply-demand principle; they will not; nor ought they, nor can they. Ye shall reduce them to order, begin reducing them. to order, to just subordination; noble loyalty in return for noble guidance. Their souls are driven nigh mad; let yours be sane and ever saner.
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Thomas Carlyle (Past and Present)
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This is the end of Prime Minister, Cardinal Archbishop Lomenie de Brienne. Flimsier mortal was seldom fated to do as weighty a mischief; to have a life as despicable-envied, an exit as frightful. Fired, as the phrase is, with ambition: blown, like a kindled rag, the sport of winds, not this way, not that way, but of all ways, straight towards such a powder-mine,โwhich he kindled! Let us pity the hapless Lomenie; and forgive him; and, as soon as possible, forget him.
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Thomas Carlyle (The French Revolution: A History (Modern Library Classics))
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existence. If we think of it, all that a University, or final highest School can do for us, is still but what the first School began doing,โteach us to read. We learn to read, in various languages, in various sciences; we learn the alphabet and letters of all manner of Books. But the place where we are to get knowledge, even theoretic knowledge, is the Books themselves! It depends on what we read, after all manner of Professors have done their best for us. The true University of these days is a Collection of Books.
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Thomas Carlyle (On Heroes and Hero Worship and the Heroic in History)
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How such Ideals do realize themselves; and grow, wondrously, from amid the incongruous ever-fluctuating chaos of the Actual: this is what World-History, if it teach any thing, has to teach us, How they grow; and, after long stormy growth, bloom out mature, supreme; then quickly (for the blossom is brief) fall into decay; sorrowfully dwindle; and crumble down, or rush down, noisily or noiselessly disappearing. The blossom is so brief; as of some centennial Cactus-flower, which after a century of waiting shines out for hours!
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Thomas Carlyle (The French Revolution: A History (Modern Library Classics))
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For there was need once more of a Divine Revelation to the torpid frivolous children of men, if they were not to sink altogether into the ape condition. And in that whirlwind of the Universe,โlights obliterated, and the torn wrecks of Earth and Hell hurled aloft into the Empyrean; black whirlwind, which made even apes serious, and drove most of them mad,โthere was, to men, a voice audible; voice from the heart of things once more, as if to say: "Lying is not permitted in this Universe. The wages of lying, you behold, are death. Lying means damnation in this Universe; and Beelzebub, never so elaborately decked in crowns and mitres, is NOT God!" This was a revelation truly to be named of the Eternal, in our poor Eighteenth Century; and has greatly altered the complexion of said Century to the Historian ever since.
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Thomas Carlyle (History of Friedrich II of Prussia)
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The first duty for a man is still that of subduing Fear. We must get rid of Fear; we cannot act at all till then. A man's acts are slavish, not true but specious; his very thoughts are false, he thinks too as a slave and coward till he have got Fear under his feet. Odin's creed, if we disentangle the real kernel of it, is true to this hour. A man shall and must be valiant; he must march forward and quit himself like a man - trusting imperturbably in the appointment and choice of the upper Powers; and on the whole not fear at all. Now and always, the completeness of his victory over Fear will determine how much of a man he is.
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Thomas Carlyle (On Heroes, Hero Worship and the Heroic in History)
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With respect to Duels, indeed, I have my own ideas. Few things, in this so surprising world, strike me with more surprise. Two little visual Spectra of men, hovering with insecure enough cohesion in the midst of the UNFATHOMABLE, and to dissolve therein, at any rate, very soon,โmake pause at the distance of twelve paces asunder; whirl round; and, simultaneously by the cunningest mechanism, explode one another into Dissolution; and off-hand become Air, and Non-extant! Deuce on it (verdammt), the little spitfires!โNay, I think with old Hugo von Trimberg: 'God must needs laugh outright, could such a thing be, to see his wondrous Manikins here below.
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Thomas Carlyle (Sartor Resartus)
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A man's religion is the chief fact with regard to him... By religion I do not mean here the church-creed which he professes, the articles of faith which he will sign... We see men of all kinds of professed creeds attain to almost all degrees of worth or worthlessness under each or any of them... but the thing a man does practically believe (and this is often enough without asserting it even to himself, much less to others); the thing a man does practically lay to heart, concerning his vital relations to this mysterious universe, and his duty and destiny there, that is in all cases the primary thing for him, and creatively determines all the rest. That is his religion.
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Thomas Carlyle (On Heroes Hero Worship and the Heroic in History)
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Nevertheless, has not a deeper meditation taught certain of every climate and age, that the WHERE and WHEN, so mysteriously inseparable from all our thoughts, are but superficial terrestrial adhesions to thought; that the seer may discern them where they mount up out of the celestial EVERYWHERE and where they mount up out of the celestial EVERYWHERE and FOREVER: have not all nations conceived their God as Omnipresent and Eternal; as existing in a universal HERE, an everlasting Now? Think well, thou too wilt find that Space is but a mode of our human Sense, so likewise Time; there is no Space and no Time: WE areโwe know not what;--light-sparkles floating in the ether of Deity!
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But figure his thought, when Death is now clutching at his own heart-strings, unlooked for, inexorable! Yes, poor Louis, Death has found thee. No palace walls or life-guards, gorgeous tapestries or gilt buckram of stiffest ceremonial could keep him out; but he is here, here at thy very life-breath, and will extinguish it. Thou, whose whole existence hitherto was a chimera and scenic show, at length becomest a reality: sumptuous Versailles bursts asunder, like a dream, into void Immensity; Time is done, and all the scaffolding of Time falls wrecked with hideous clangour round thy soul: the pale Kingdoms yawn open; there must thou enter, naked, all unking'd, and await what is appointed thee! Unhappy man, there as thou turnest, in dull agony, on thy bed of weariness, what a thought is thine! Purgatory and Hell-fire, now all-too possible, in the prospect; in the retrospect,--alas, what thing didst thou do that were not better undone; what mortal didst thou generously help; what sorrow hadst thou mercy on? Do the 'five hundred thousand' ghosts, who sank shamefully on so many battle-fields from Rossbach to Quebec, that thy Harlot might take revenge for an epigram,--crowd round thee in this hour? Thy foul Harem; the curses of mothers, the tears and infamy of daughters? Miserable man! thou 'hast done evil as thou couldst:' thy whole existence seems one hideous abortion and mistake of Nature; the use and meaning of thee not yet known. Wert thou a fabulous Griffin, devouring the works of men; daily dragging virgins to thy cave;--clad also in scales that no spear would pierce: no spear but Death's? A Griffin not fabulous but real! Frightful, O Louis, seem these moments for thee.--We will pry no further into the horrors of a sinner's death-bed.
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Thomas Carlyle (The French Revolution: A History (Modern Library Classics))
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[Tolstoy] denounced [many historians'] lamentable tendency to simplify. The experts stumble onto a battlefield, into a parliament or public square, and demand, "Where is he? Where is he?" "Where is who?" "The hero, of course! The leader, the creator, the great man!" And having found him, they promptly ignore all his peers and troops and advisors. They close their eyes and abstract their Napoleon from the mud and the smoke and the masses on either side, and marvel at how such a figure could possibly have prevailed in so many battles and commanded the destiny of an entire continent. "There was an eye to see in this man," wrote Thomas Carlyle about Napoleon in 1840, "a soul to dare and do. He rose naturally to be the King. All men saw that he was such."
But Tolstoy saw differently. "Kings are the slaves of history," he declared. "The unconscious swarmlike life of mankind uses every moment of a king's life as an instrument for its purposes." Kings and commanders and presidents did not interest Tolstoy. History, his history, looks elsewhere: it is the study of infinitely incremental, imperceptible change from one state of being (peace) to another (war).
The experts claimed that the decisions of exceptional men could explain all of history's great events. For the novelist, this belief was evidence of their failure to grasp the reality of an incremental change brought about by the multitude's infinitely small actions.
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Daniel Tammet (Thinking In Numbers: On Life, Love, Meaning, and Math)
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This green flowery rock-built earth, the trees, the mountains, rivers, many-sounding seas;โthat great deep sea of azure that swims overhead; the winds sweeping through it; the black cloud fashioning itself together, now pouring out fire, now hail and rain; what is it? Ay, what? At bottom we do not yet know; we can never know at all. It is not by our superior insight that we escape the difficulty; it is by our superior levity, our inattention, our want of insight. It is by not thinking that we cease to wonder at it. Hardened round us, encasing wholly every notion we form, is a wrappage of traditions, hearsays, mere words. We call that fire of the black thunder-cloud "electricity," and lecture learnedly about it, and grind the like of it out of glass and silk: but what is it? What made it? Whence comes it? Whither goes it? Science has done much for us; but it is a poor science that would hide from us the great deep sacred infinitude of Nescience, whither we can never penetrate, on which all science swims as a mere superficial film. This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle; wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.
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Thomas Carlyle (On Heroes, Hero Worship and the Heroic in History)
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Close-viewed, their industry and function is that of dressing gracefully and eating sumptuously. As for their debauchery and depravity, it is perhaps unexampled since the era of Tiberius and Commodus. (โฆ) Such are the shepherds of the people: and now how fares it with the flock? With the flock, as is inevitable, it fares ill, and ever worse. They are not tended, they are only regularly shorn. They are sent for, to do statute-labour, to pay statute-taxes; to fatten battle-fields (named 'Bed of honour') with their bodies, in quarrels which are not theirs; their hand and toil is in every possession of man; but for themselves they have little or no possession. Untaught, uncomforted, unfed; to pine dully in thick obscuration, in squalid destitution and obstruction: this is the lot of the millions.
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Thomas Carlyle (The French Revolution: A History (Modern Library Classics))
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What is Democracy; this huge inevitable Product of the Destinies, which is everywhere the portion of our Europe in these latter days? There lies the question for us. Whence comes it, this universal big black Democracy; whither tends it; what is the meaning of it? A meaning it must have, or it would not be here. If we can find the right meaning of it, we may, wisely submitting or wisely resisting and controlling, still hope to live in the midst of it; if we cannot find the right meaning, if we find only the wrong or no meaning in it, to live will not be possible!โThe whole social wisdom of the Present Time is summoned, in the name of the Giver of Wisdom, to make clear to itself, and lay deeply to heart with an eye to strenuous valiant practice and effort, what the meaning of this universal revolt of the European Populations, which calls itself Democracy, and decides to continue permanent, may be.
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Thomas Carlyle (Latter-Day Pamphlets)
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His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge. Of contemporary literature, philosophy and politics he appeared to know next to nothing. Upon my quoting Thomas Carlyle, he inquired in the naivest way who he might be and what he had done. My surprise reached a climax, however, when I found incidentally that he was ignorant of the Copernican Theory and of the composition of the Solar System. That any civilized human being in this nineteenth century should not be aware that the earth travelled round the sun appeared to be to me such an extraordinary fact that I could hardly realize it.
โYou appear to be astonished,โ he said, smiling at my expression of surprise. โNow that I do know it I shall do my best to forget it.โ
โTo forget it!โ
โYou see,โ he explained, โI consider that a manโs brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose. A fool takes in all the lumber of every sort that he comes across, so that the knowledge which might be useful to him gets crowded out, or at best is jumbled up with a lot of other things so that he has a difficulty in laying his hands upon it. Now the skilful workman is very careful indeed as to what he takes into his brain-attic. He will have nothing but the tools which may help him in doing his work, but of these he has a large assortment, and all in the most perfect order. It is a mistake to think that that little room has elastic walls and can distend to any extent. Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.โ
โBut the Solar System!โ I protested.
โWhat the deuce is it to me?โ he interrupted impatiently; โyou say that we go round the sun. If we went round the moon it would not make a pennyworth of difference to me or to my work.โ
I was on the point of asking him what that work might be, but something in his manner showed me that the question would be an unwelcome one. I pondered over our short conversation, however, and endeavoured to draw my deductions from it. He said that he would acquire no knowledge which did not bear upon his object. Therefore all the knowledge which he possessed was such as would be useful to him. I enumerated in my own mind all the various points upon which he had shown me that he was exceptionally well-informed. I even took a pencil and jotted them down. I could not help smiling at the document when I had completed it. It ran in this wayโ
SHERLOCK HOLMESโhis limits.
1. Knowledge of Literature.โNil.
2. Philosophy.โNil.
3. Astronomy.โNil.
4. Politics.โFeeble.
5. Botany.โVariable. Well up in belladonna,
opium, and poisons generally.
Knows nothing of practical gardening.
6. Geology.โPractical, but limited.
Tells at a glance different soils
from each other. After walks has
shown me splashes upon his trousers,
and told me by their colour and
consistence in what part of London
he had received them.
7. Chemistry.โProfound.
8. Anatomy.โAccurate, but unsystematic.
9. Sensational Literature.โImmense. He appears
to know every detail of every horror
perpetrated in the century.
10. Plays the violin well.
11. Is an expert singlestick player, boxer, and swordsman.
12. Has a good practical knowledge of British law.
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Arthur Conan Doyle (A Study in Scarlet (Sherlock Holmes, #1))
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Thou, whose whole existence hitherto was a chimera and scenic show, at length becomest a reality: sumptuous Versailles bursts asunder, like a Dream, into void Immensity; Time is done, and all the Scaffolding of Time falls wrecked with hideous clangour round thy soul: the pale Kingdoms yawn open; there must thou enter, naked, all unkingโd,* and await what is appointed thee! Unhappy man, there as thou turnest, in dull agony, on thy bed of weariness, what a thought is thine! Purgatory and Hell-fire, now all too possible, in the prospect: in the retrospect,โalas, what thing didst thou do that were not better undone; what mortal didst thou generously help; what sorrow hadst thou mercy on? Do the โfive hundred thousandโ ghosts,* who sank shamefully on so many battle-fields from Rossbach to Quebec, that thy Harlot might take revenge for an epigram,*โcrowd round thee in this hour? Thy foul Harem; the curses of mothers, the tears and infamy of daughters? Miserable man! thou โhast done evil as thou couldst:โ* thy whole existence seems one hideous abortion and mistake of Nature; the use and meaning of thee not yet known. Wert thou a fabulous Griffin, devouring the works of men;* daily dragging virgins to thy cave;โclad also in scales that no spear would pierce: no spear but Deathโs? A Griffin not fabulous but real! Frightful, O Louis, seem these moments for thee.โWe will pry no further into the horrors of a sinnerโs deathbed.
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Thomas Carlyle (The French Revolution)