Thomas Carlyle Quotes

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Wealth has more and more increased, and at the same time gathered itself more and more into masses, strangely altering the old relations, and increasing the distance between the rich and the poor.

Thomas Carlyle
What are your historical Facts still more your biographical Wilt thou know a man by stringing-together beadrolls of what thou namest Facts

Thomas Carlyle
Neither in tailoring nor in legislating does man proceed by mere accident.

Thomas Carlyle
The leafy blossoming present time springs from the whole past, remembered and unrememberable.

Thomas Carlyle
Midas-eared Mammonism, double-barrelled Dilettantism, and their thousand adjuncts and corollaries, are not the Law by which God Almighty has appointed this His universe to go.

Thomas Carlyle
Does not every true man feel that he is himself made higher by doing reverence to what is really above him?

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Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.

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Our very walking is an incessant falling; a falling and a catching of ourselves before we come actually to the pavement. It is emblematic of all things a man does.

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But see! a wandering Night-moth enters, Allured by taper gleaming bright. What passions in her small heart whirling, Hopes boundless, adoration, dread; At length her tiny pinions twirling, She darts, and — puff! — the moth is dead.

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That monstrous tuberosity of civilised life, the capital of England.

Thomas Carlyle
I grow 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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Blessed be the God's voice; for it is true, and falsehoods have to cease before it!

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Science rests on reason and experiment, and can meet an opponent with calmness.

Thomas Carlyle
Man always worships something; always he sees the Infinite shadowed forth in something finite; and indeed can and must so see it in any finite thing, once tempt him well to fix his eyes thereon.

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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.

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Did not the Boy Alexander weep because he had not two Planets to conquer; or a whole Solar System; or after that, a whole universe?

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Terror itself, when once grown transcendental, becomes a kind of courage; as frost sufficiently intense, according to the poet Milton, will burn.

Thomas Carlyle