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Thomas Carlyle Quotes - Page 18

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What this country needs is a man who knows God other than by heresay.

What this country needs is a man who knows God other than by heresay.

Country, Men, Needs

Fancy that thou deservest to be hangedthou wilt feel it happiness to be only shot: fancy that thou deservest to be hanged ina hair halter, it will be a luxury to die in hemp.

Luxury, Hair, Guilt

Literature is the thought of thinking souls.

Thinking, Soul, Literature

John Stuart Mill, Thomas Carlyle (2010). “Autobiography of J.S. Mill & on Liberty; Characteristics, Inaugural Address at Edinburgh & Sir Walter Scott”, p.464, Cosimo, Inc.

There is something in man which your science cannot satisfy.

Science, Men

It is a strange trade that of advocacy. Your intellect, your highest heavenly gift is hung up in the shop window like a loaded pistol for sale.

Pistols, Strange, Influence

Thomas Carlyle, James Anthony Froude (2012). “Reminiscences”, p.13, Cambridge University Press

Let me have my own way in exactly everything and a sunnier and pleasanter creature does not exist.

Doe, Way, Let Me

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.

Motivation, Axes, Perfection

A man cannot make a pair of shoes rightly unless he do it in a devout manner.

Inspirational, Motivational, Work

Thomas Carlyle, Brendan King (1993). “The Sayings of Thomas Carlyle”, p.53, Lulu.com

A good book is the purest essence of a human soul.

Book, Essence, Soul

Speech in support of the London Library, 24 June 1840, in F. Harrison 'Carlyle and the London Library' (1907) p. 66

Necessity dispenseth with decorum.

Decorum

Dinners are defined as 'the ultimate act of communion;' men that can have communion in nothing else, can sympathetically eat together, can still rise into some glow of brotherhood over food and wine.

Wine, Men, Brotherhood

Thomas Carlyle (1857). “The French Revolution: a History: In Three Parts: I. the Bastille; II. the Constitution; III. the Guillotine : in Two Volumes”, p.192

The glory of a workman, still more of a master workman, that he does his work well, ought to be his most precious possession; like the honor of a soldier, dearer to him than life.

Life, Work, Soldier

Thomas Carlyle (2010). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle: Volume 30, Critical and Miscellaneous Essays V”, p.35, Cambridge University Press

We were wise indeed, could we discern truly the signs of our own time; and by knowledge of its wants and advantages, wisely adjust our own position in it. Let us, instead of gazing idly into the obscure distance, look calmly around us, for a little, on the perplexed scene where we stand. Perhaps, on a more serious inspection, something of its perplexity will disappear, some of its distinctive characters and deeper tendencies more clearly reveal themselves; whereby our own relations to it, our own true aims and endeavors in it, may also become clearer.

Wise, Distance, Character

Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.13, Lulu.com

The most unhappy of all men is the man who cannot tell what he is going to do, who has got no work cut-out for him in the world, and does not go into it. For work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind,honest work, which you intend getting done.

Cutting, Men, Unhappy

Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (2010). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.455, Cambridge University Press

To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes.

God, Stars, Eye

Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.97, Lulu.com

There is endless merit in a man's knowing when to have done.

Men, Knowing, Done

Thomas Carlyle (1857). “Critical and miscellaneous essays, collected and republ”, p.259

The condition of the most passionate enthusiast is to be preferred over the individual who, because of the fear of making a mistake, won't in the end affirm or deny anything

Fear, Mistake, Passionate

I don't like to talk much with people who always agree with me. It is amusing to coquette with an echo for a little while, but one soon tires of it.

Fake People, Echoes, Coquette

All evil is like a nightmare; the instant you stir under it, the evil is gone.

Night, Evil, Gone

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.

Two, Inward, Talent

The deepest depth of vulgarism is that of setting up money as the ark of the covenant.

Ark, Depth, Covenant

No country can find eternal peace and comfort where the vote of Judas Iscariot is as good as the vote of the Saviour of mankind.

Country, Comfort, Vote

A frightful dialect for the stupid, the pedant and dullard sort.

Stupid, Dialect, Pedants

Thomas Carlyle (1872). “History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great”, p.276

He who cannot withal keep his mind to himself cannot practice any considerable thing whatsoever.

Practice, Silence, Mind

When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent.

Intelligent, Behavior, Individual

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