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Thomas Carlyle Quotes - Page 19

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A dandy is a clothes-wearing man--a man whose trade, office, and existence consist in the wearing of clothes. Every faculty of his soul, spirit, person and purse is heroically consecrated to this one object--the wearing

A dandy is a clothes-wearing man--a man whose trade, office, and existence consist in the wearing of clothes. Every faculty of his soul, spirit, person and purse is heroically consecrated to this one object--the wearing of clothes, wisely and well; so that, as others dress to live, he lives to dress.

Men, Clothes, Office

Thomas Carlyle (1871). “The Collected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.166

Look to be treated by others as you have treated others.

Inspirational, Hate, Nursing

Know what thou canst work at, and work at it like a Hercules.

Effort, Knows

Thomas Carlyle (1840). “Works”

This London City, with all of its houses, palaces, steam-engines, cathedrals, and huge immeasurable traffic an tumult, what is it but a Thought, but millions of Thoughts made into One-a huge immeasurable Spirit of a Thought, embodied in brick, in iron, smoke, dust, Palaces, Parliaments, Hackney Coaches, Katherine Docks, and the rest of it! Not a brick was made but some man had to think of the making of that brick.

Men, Thinking, Iron

Thomas Carlyle (1840). “On Heroes, Hero-worship and the Heroic in History”, p.195, CUP Archive

Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct.

Belief, Excellent, Conviction

The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

Time, Yesterday, Forever

If you are looking at data over and over you better be taking away valuable insight every time. If you are constantly looking at data that isn't leading to strategic action stop wasting your time and look for more Actionable Analytics.

Data, Over You, Looks

A thought once awakened does not again slumber.

Doe, Slumber, Awakened

Thomas Carlyle (1841). “On Heroes, Hero-Worship,&the Heroic in History. Six Lectures. Reported with emendations and additions”, p.34

Man, it is not thy works, which are mortal, infinitely little, and the greatest no greater than the least, but only the spirit thou workest in, that can have worth or continuance.

Men, Littles, Spirit

Thomas Carlyle (1872). “The French Revolution: a History”, p.18

This is the eternal law of Nature for a man, my beneficent Exeter-Hall friends; this, that he shall be permitted, encouraged, and if need be, compelled to do what work the Maker of him has intended by the making of him for this world! Not that he should eat pumpkin with never such felicity in the West India Islands is, or can be, the blessedness of our Black friend; but that he should do useful work there, according as the gifts have been bestowed on him for that.

Men, Purpose, Makers

"Occasional Discourse on the Nigger Question". Reprinted, with additions, from Fraser's Magazine,

We do everything by custom, even believe by it; our very axioms, let us boast of free-thinking as we may, are oftenest simply such beliefs as we have never heard questioned.

Believe, Thinking, May

Thomas Carlyle (1864). “Sartor Resartus”, p.158

If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

Kind, Speak, Truth Is

These Arabs, the man Mahomet, and that one century, - is it not as if a spark had fallen, one spark, on a world of what proves explosive powder, blazes heaven-high from Delhi to Granada! I said, the Great man was always as lightning out of Heaven; the rest of men waited for him like fuel, and then they too would flame.

Islamic, Men, Flames

Thomas Carlyle (1864). “Sartor Resartus”, p.242

Eyes bright, with many tears, behind them.

Eye, Tears, Behinds

Man is emphatically a proselytizing creature.

Nature, Men, Humanity

Thomas Carlyle (2009). “Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdrockh: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.10, ReadHowYouWant.com

Not one false man but doth uncountable evil.

Men, Evil

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.

Distance, Wealth, Rich

1829 Signs of the Times.

Evil, once manfully fronted, ceases to be evil; there is generous battle-hope in place of dead, passive misery; the evil itself has become a kind of good.

Evil, Battle, Misery

Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.81, Lulu.com

The public is anold woman.Let her maunderand mumble.

Old Woman

Thomas Carlyle, Brendan King (1993). “The Sayings of Thomas Carlyle”, p.60, Lulu.com

How great a Possibility, how small a realized Result.

Possibility, Results

1834 Of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Letter to Emerson, 12 Aug.

No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor.

Sports, Integrity, Athlete

Teaching school is but another word for sure and not very slow destruction.

Teaching, School, Math

Thomas Carlyle (1886). “Early Letters”, p.281, Georg Olms Verlag

The dust of controversy is merely the falsehood flying off.

Dust, Flying, Controversy

In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government.

Running, Witty, Government

Thomas Carlyle (1843). “Past and Present”, p.149

History, as it lies at the root of all science, is also the first distinct product of man's spiritual nature, his earliest expression of what may be called thought.

Spiritual, Lying, Science

Thomas Carlyle, G. B. Tennyson (1984). “Carlyle Reader”, p.55, CUP Archive

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