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Thomas Carlyle Quotes - Page 15

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The first sin in our universe was Lucifer's self conceit.

The first sin in our universe was Lucifer's self conceit.

Self, Firsts, Sin

The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.

Happiness, Laughter, Brave Person

Heroism is the divine relation which, in all times, unites a great man to other men.

Time, Hero, Men

Thomas Carlyle (1840). “On Heroes, Hero-worship and the Heroic in History”, p.4

Every noble crown is, and on Earth will forever be, a crown of thorns.

Forever, Noble, Crowns

Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.384, Lulu.com

To know, to get into the truth of anything, is ever a mystic art, of which the best logic's can but babble on the surface.

Art, Spirituality, Logic

Thomas Carlyle (1864). “Sartor Resartus”, p.227

Wonder is the basis of worship.

Worship, Wonder, Bases

Thomas Carlyle (1871). “The Collected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.370

No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.

Inspirational, Believe, Iron

Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can.

Inspirational, Inspiring, Men

History is a mighty dramos, enacted upon the theatre of times, with suns for lamps and eternity for a background.

History, Historical, Theatre

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.

Inspiring, Music, Angel

Thomas Carlyle (1857). “Critical & Miscellaneous Essays: Collected & Republished”, p.325

Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.

Past, Men, Goodness

Thomas Carlyle (1842). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: Collected and Republished”, p.320

Histories are a kind of distilled newspapers.

History, Kind, Newspapers

Success in life, in anything, depends upon the number of persons that one can make himself agreeable to.

Inspirational, Numbers, Success In Life

The cut of a garment speaks of intellect and talent and the color of temperament and heart.

Heart, Cutting, Color

Infinite is the help man can yield to man.

Men, Yield, Brotherhood

Thomas Carlyle (1840). “Sartor Reartus: The Life and Opinions of Her Teufelsdrockh : in Three Books”, p.301

Rich as we are in biography, a well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one; and there are certainly many more men whose history deserves to be recorded than persons willing and able to record it.

Men, Records, Biographies

Thomas Carlyle (1864). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays ...”, p.7

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.

Fashion, Silence, Together

"Sartor Resartus" by Thomas Carlyle, Book III, (Ch. 3), 1833-1834.

Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.

Time, Youth, Glad

Thomas Carlyle (1825). “Carlyle's Works ...”

Silence, the great Empire of Silence: higher than all stars; deeper than the Kingdom of Death! It alone is great; all else is small.

Stars, Silence, Kingdoms

I grow daily to honour 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.

God, Reality, Devil

Letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson, April 29, 1836

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!

Lying, Heaven, Soul

Thomas Carlyle (1864). “Sartor Resartus”, p.140

Custom doth make dotards of us all.

Customs

Thomas Carlyle (1869). “Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh : in Three Books”, p.250

The great law of culture is, Let each become all that he was created capable of being; expand, if possible, to his full growth; resisting all impediments, casting off all foreign, especially all noxious adhesions, and show himself at length in his own shape and stature be these what they may.

Casting Off, Law, Growth

Thomas Carlyle (1864). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays ...”, p.13

Speech is great, but silence is greater.

Silence, Speech, Silence Is

Thomas Carlyle (1841). “On Heroes, Hero-Worship,&the Heroic in History. Six Lectures. Reported with emendations and additions”, p.175

There is but one thing without honor, smitten with eternal barrenness, inability to do or to be,-insincerity, unbelief.

Infidelity, Honor, Inability

Thomas Carlyle (1884). “Miscellaneous essays”

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