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Thomas Carlyle Quote: “A force as of madness in the hands of reason has done all that was ever done in the world.”
Thomas Carlyle Quote: “Man’s 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.”
Thomas Carlyle Quote: “What, in the devil’s name, is the use of respectability, with never so many gigs and silver spoons, if thou inwardly art the pitifulness of all men?”
Thomas Carlyle Quote: “Every man has a coward and hero in his soul.”
Thomas Carlyle Quote: “Acorns are planted silently by some unnoticed breeze.”
Thomas Carlyle Quote: “I have no patience whatever with these gorilla damnifications of humanity.”
Thomas Carlyle Quote: “I want to meet my God awake.”
Thomas Carlyle Quote: “Great men are the inspired texts of that divine Book of Revelations, whereof a chapter is completed from epoch to epoch, and by some named History.”
Thomas Carlyle Quote: “The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious.”
Thomas Carlyle Quote: “The actual well seen is ideal.”
Thomas Carlyle Quote: “The nobleness of silence. The highest melody dwells only in silence, – the sphere melody, the melody of health.”
Thomas Carlyle Quote: “I never heard tell of any clever man that came of entirely stupid people.”
Thomas Carlyle Quote: “The leafy blossoming present time springs from the whole past, remembered and unrememberable.”
Thomas Carlyle Quote: “To each is given a certain inward talent, a certain outward environment or fortune; to each by wisest combination of these two, a certain maximum capacity.”
Thomas Carlyle Quote: “A very sea of thought; neither calm nor clear, if you will, yet wherein the toughest pearl-diver may dive to his utmost depth, and return not only with sea-wreck but with true orients.”
Thomas Carlyle Quote: “Great is wisdom; infinite is the value of wisdom. It cannot be exaggerated; it is the highest achievement of man.”
Thomas Carlyle Quote: “In our wide world there is but one altogether fatal personage, the dunce, – he that speaks irrationally, that sees not, and yet thinks he sees.”
Thomas Carlyle Quote: “The devil has his elect.”
Thomas Carlyle Quote: “What I loved in the man was his health, his unity with himself; all people and all things seemed to find their quite peaceable adjustment with him, not a proud domineering one, as after doubtful contest, but a spontaneous-looking peaceable, even humble one.”
Thomas Carlyle Quote: “There is but one thing without honor, smitten with eternal barrenness, inability to do or to be,-insincerity, unbelief.”
Thomas Carlyle Quote: “Who is there that, in logical words, can express the effect music has on us?”
Thomas Carlyle Quote: “One monster there is in the world, the idle man.”
Thomas Carlyle Quote: “Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.”
Thomas Carlyle Quote: “A true delineation of the smallest man is capable of interesting the greatest man.”
Thomas Carlyle Quote: “Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than gracefully insists on its own rights.”
Thomas Carlyle Quote: “Every human being has a right to hear what other wise human beings have spoken to him. It is one of the Rights of Men; a very cruel injustice if you deny it to a man!”
Thomas Carlyle Quote: “Venerable to me is the hard hand, – crooked, coarse, – wherein, notwithstanding, lies a cunning virtue, indispensably royal as of the sceptre of the planet.”
Thomas Carlyle Quote: “I know so little about any history. How little do I know even about the history of myself.”
Thomas Carlyle Quote: “It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.”
Thomas Carlyle Quote: “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.”
Thomas Carlyle Quote: “In the poorest cottage are Books: is one Book, wherein for several thousands of years the spirit of man has found light, and nourishment, and an interpreting response to whatever is Deepest in him.”
Thomas Carlyle Quote: “Goethe’s devil is a cultivated personage and acquainted with the modern sciences; sneers at witchcraft and the black art even while employing them, and doubts most things, nay, half disbelieves even his own existence.”
Thomas Carlyle Quote: “The greatest of all heroes is One – whom we do not name here! Let sacred silence meditate that sacred matter; you will find it the ultimate perfection of a principle extant throughout man’s whole history on earth.”
Thomas Carlyle Quote: “Is not cant the materia prima of the devil, from which all falsehoods, imbecilities, abominations, body themselves, from which no true thing can come? For cant is itself the properly a double-distilled lie, the second power of a lie.”
Thomas Carlyle Quote: “Laws themselves, political Constitutions, are not our Life; but only the house wherein our Life is led.”
Thomas Carlyle Quote: “This little life has its duties that are great-that are alone great, and that go up to heaven and down to hell.”
Thomas Carlyle Quote: “To the mean eye all things are trivial, as certainly as to the jaundiced they are yellow.”
Thomas Carlyle Quote: “Pin thy faith to no man’s sleeve. Hast thou not two eyes of thy own?”
Thomas Carlyle Quote: “Man’s earthly interests,’are all hooked and buttoned together, and held up, by Clothes.”
Thomas Carlyle Quote: “There can be no acting or doing of any kind till it be recognized that there is a thing to be done; the thing once recognized, doing in a thousand shapes becomes possible.”
Thomas Carlyle Quote: “I have seen gleams in the face and eyes of the man that have let you look into a higher country.”
Thomas Carlyle Quote: “He that works and does some Poem, not he that merely says one, is worthy of the name of Poet.”
Thomas Carlyle Quote: “Great men are the modelers, patterns, and in a wide sense creators, of whatsoever the general mass of men contrived to do and attain.”
Thomas Carlyle Quote: “Ever, as before, does Madness remain a mysterious-terrific, altogether infernal boiling-up of the Nether Chaotic Deep, through this fair-painted Vision of Creation, which swims thereon, which we name the Real.”
Thomas Carlyle Quote: “Let him who gropes painfully in darkness or uncertain light, and prays vehemently that the dawn may ripen into day, lay this precept well to heart: “Do the duty which lies nearest to thee,” which thou know to be a duty! Thy second duty will already have become clearer.”
Thomas Carlyle Quote: “Alas! while the body stands so broad and brawny, must the soul lie blinded, dwarfed, stupefied, almost annihilated? Alas! this was, too, a breath of God, bestowed in heaven, but on earth never to be unfolded!”
Thomas Carlyle Quote: “Eyes bright, with many tears, behind them.”
Thomas Carlyle Quote: “Are not our greatest men as good as lost? The men that walk daily among us, warming us, feeding us, walk shrouded in darkness, mere mythic men.”
Thomas Carlyle Quote: “The goal of yesterday will be our starting-point to-morrow.”
Thomas Carlyle Quote: “Even in the meanest sorts of labor, the whole soul of a man is composed into a kind of real harmony the instant he sets himself to work.”
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