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Thomas Carlyle Quotes - Page 30

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A vein of poetry exists in the hearts of all men.

A vein of poetry exists in the hearts of all men.

Heart, Men, Poetry

Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.147, Lulu.com

To be true is manly, chivalrous, Christian; to be false is mean, cowardly, devilish.

Christian, Mean, Being True

Eternity looks grander and kinder if time grow meaner and more hostile.

Time, Looks, Eternity

An everlasting lodestar, that beams the brighter in the heavens the darker here on earth grows the night.

Night, Heaven, Religion

Thomas Carlyle (1858). “Chartism: Past and Present. By Thomas Carlyle”, p.248

He that works and does some Poem, not he that merely says one, is worthy of the name of Poet.

Names, Doe, Poet

Thomas Carlyle, Oliver Cromwell, Henry Duff Traill (2010). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.78, Cambridge University Press

The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.

Life, Change, Truth

Thomas Carlyle (1858). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays”, p.308

Of a truth, men are mystically united: a mystic bond of brotherhood makes all men one.

Sympathy, Men, Brotherhood Of Man

Thomas Carlyle (1881). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: Collected and Republished”, p.115

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.

Rights, Remember, Breeding

Thomas Carlyle (1833). “Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Zenfelsdröck in Three Books”, p.165

Professors of the Dismal Science, I perceive the length of your tether is now pretty well run; and I must request you to talk a little lower in the future.

Running, Littles, Length

So much of truth, only under an ancient obsolete vesture, but the spirit of it still true, do I find in the Paganism of old nations. Nature is still divine, the revelation of the workings of God; the Hero is still worshipable: this, under poor cramped incipient forms, is what all Pagan religions have struggled, as they could, to set forth.

Hero, Paganism, Spirit

Thomas Carlyle (2016). “Heroes and Hero Worship: The Historian”, p.14, 北戴河出版

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.

Book, Men, Light

Thomas Carlyle (1857). “Critical & Miscellaneous Essays: Collected & Republished”, p.161

There is no life of a man, faithfully recorded, but is a heroic poem of its sort, rhymed or unrhymed.

Life, Men, Heroic

Critical and Miscellaneous Essays "Sir Walter Scott" (1838)

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness. He has a work, a life-purpose; he has found it, and will follow it! How, as a free-flowing channel, dug and torn by noble force through the sour mudswamp of one's existence, like an ever-deepening river there, it runs and flows

Running, Work, Blessed

Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.396, Lulu.com

What is all Knowledge too but recorded Experience, and a product of History; of which, therefore, Reasoning and Belief, no less than Action and Passion, are essential materials?

Passion, Knowledge, Experience

'Critical and Miscellaneous Essays' (1838) 'On History'

A man--be the heavens ever praised!--is sufficient for himself.

Men, Heaven, Aspiration

Thomas Carlyle (1871). “The Collected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.180

That monstrous tuberosity of civilised life, the capital of England.

London, England, Civilised

Thomas Carlyle (1831). “Sartor Resartus: The life and opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh in three books: By Thomas Carlyle”, p.167

Poetry, therefore, we will call Musical Thought.

Poetry, Musical

Thomas Carlyle (1864). “Sartor Resartus”, p.247

The true Sovereign of the world, who moulds the world like soft wax, according to his pleasure, is he who lovingly sees into the world.

World, Sovereign, Pleasure

Thomas Carlyle (1857). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: (VI, 507 p.)”, p.377

Out of Eternity the new day is born; Into Eternity at night will return.

Night, New Day, Return

Thomas Carlyle, “Today”

May blessings be upon the head of Cadmus, the Phoenicians, or whoever it was that invented books.

Book, Blessing, May

Thomas Carlyle, Charles Richard Sanders, Clyde de L. Ryals, Jane Welsh Carlyle, Kenneth J. Fielding (1970). “The collected letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle”

The eye of the intellect "sees in all objects what it brought with it the means of seeing."

Mean, Eye, Intellect

Thomas Carlyle (1857). “Critical and miscellaneous essays, collected and republ”, p.198

One seems to believe almost all that they believe; and when they stop short and call it a Religion, and you pass on, and call it only a reminiscence of one, should you not part with the kiss of peace?

Believe, Kissing, Atheism

Thomas Carlyle (1923). “Letters of Thomas Carlyle to John Stuart Mill, John Sterling and Robert Browning”

The depth of our despair measures what capability and height of claim we have to hope.

Despair, Depth, Height

Thomas Carlyle, Oliver Cromwell, Henry Duff Traill (2010). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.51, Cambridge University Press

The end of man is action.

Men, Action, Ends

Macaulay is well for awhile, but one wouldn't live under Niagara.

Wells, Niagara

In R. M. Milnes 'Notebook' (1838) p. 157

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