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Thomas Carlyle Quotes - Page 14

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The true university of these days is a collection of books.

The true university of these days is a collection of books.

Book, Library, These Days

On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic "The Hero as Man of Letters" (1841)

The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.

Gun, Civilization, Religion

Critical and Miscellaneous Essays "The State of German Literature" (1838)

Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.

Summer, Nature, Spring

Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.73, Lulu.com

Oblivion is the dark page, whereon Memory writes her light-beam characters, and makes them legible; were it all light, nothing could be read there, any more than if it were all darkness.

Memories, Writing, Character

Thomas Carlyle, Chris Vanden Bossche (2002). “Historical Essays”, p.20, Univ of California Press

Of all the things which man can do or make here below, by far the most momentous, wonderful, and worthy are the things we call books.

Book, Men, Wonderful

Thomas Carlyle (1846). “On Heroes, Hero-worship, & the Heroic in History: Six Lectures ; Reported, with Emendations and Additions”, p.147

We have our little theory on all human and divine things. Poetry, the workings of genius itself, which, in all times, with one or another meaning, has been called Inspiration, and held to be mysterious and inscrutable, is no longer without its scientific exposition. The building of the lofty rhyme is like any other masonry or bricklaying: we have theories of its rise, height, decline and fall -- which latter, it would seem, is now near, among all people.

Fall, Inspiration, People

Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (2010). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.76, Cambridge University Press

Nakedness, hunger, distress of all kinds, death itself have been cheerfully suffered, when the heart was right. It is the feeling of injustice that is insupportable to all men.

Heart, Men, Feelings

Chartism ch. 5 (1839)

When we can drain the Ocean into mill-ponds, and bottle up the Force of Gravity, to be sold by retail, in gas jars; then may we hope to comprehend the infinitudes of man's soul under formulas of Profit and Loss; and rule over this too, as over a patent engine, by checks, and valves, and balances.

Ocean, Loss, Technology

Thomas Carlyle, G. B. Tennyson (1984). “Carlyle Reader”, p.44, CUP Archive

Universal history, the history of what man has accomplished in this world, is at bottom the History of the Great Men who have worked here.

Men, History, World

Thomas Carlyle (1840). “On Heroes, Hero-worship and the Heroic in History”, p.3, CUP Archive

Not what I have, but what I do is my kingdom.

Growth, Charity, Kingdoms

Thomas Carlyle (1894). “The Carlyle reader, selections ed. by J. Wood”

He that can work is born to be king of something.

Kings, Work, Birth

Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.41, Lulu.com

True friends, like ivy and the wall Both stand together, and together fall.

Loyalty, Wall, True Friend

The press is the fourth estate of the realm.

Journalism, Estates, Realms

The world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was.

Mediocrity, World, Republic

Thomas Carlyle, Brendan King (1993). “The Sayings of Thomas Carlyle”, p.57, Lulu.com

The Orator persuades and carries all with him, he knows not how; the Rhetorician can prove that he ought to have persuaded and carried all with him.

Oratory, Prove, Orators

Thomas Carlyle (1881). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: Collected and Republished”, p.5

Love is ever the beginning of knowledge as fire is of light.

Life, Knowledge, Love Is

Thomas Carlyle (1842). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: Collected and Republished”, p.123

Are we not Spirits, that are shaped into a body, into an Appearance; and that fade away again into air and Invisibility? 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! These Limbs, whence had we them; this stormy Force; this life-blood with its burning Passion? They are dust and shadow; a Shadow-system gathered round our Me; wherein, through some moments or years, the Divine Essence is to be revealed in the Flesh.

Passion, Years, Essence

What are your Axioms, and Categories, and Systems, and Aphorisms? Words, words.... Be not the slave of Words.

Language, Slave, Aphorism

Thomas Carlyle (1831). “Sartor Resartus: The life and opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh in three books: By Thomas Carlyle”, p.36

Painful for a person is rebellious independence, only in loving companionship with his associates does a person feel safe: Only in reverently bowing down before the higher does a person feel exalted.

Humility, Independence, Doe

All work is as seed sown; it grows and spreads, and sows itself anew.

Work, Grows, Spread

Thomas Carlyle (1872). “Works”, p.118

Let a man try faithfully, manfully to be right; he will grow daily more and more right. It is at bottom the condition on which all men have to cultivate themselves.

Men, Trying, Grows

"New letters of Thomas Carlyle".

Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being.

Culture, Process, Capability

"Speech from the opening ceremony of the 2016 Edinburgh International Culture Summit" by Ken Macintosh, www.kenmacintosh.scot. September 02, 2016.

This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle; wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.

Science, Thinking, Magic In The World

Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (2010). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.8, Cambridge University Press

The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.

Business, Men, Water

Thomas Carlyle (1857). “Critical and miscellaneous essays, collected and republ”, p.206

Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation.

Hard Work, Suffering, Reform

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