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Thomas Carlyle Quotes - Page 5

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When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.

When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.

Inspirational, Fall, Echoes

Work earnestly at anything, you will by degrees learn to work at all things.

Degrees, All Things

1843 Past and Present, bk.3, ch.2.

Self-contemplation is infallibly the symptom of disease.

Self, Disease, Contemplation

Characteristics

It's a man's sincerity and depth of vision that makes him a poet.

Men, Vision, Depth

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

Is not light grander than fire? It is the same element in a state of purity.

Fire, Light, Elements

Thomas Carlyle (1840). “Works”

History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.

Being Alone, Creativity, People

No ghost was every seen by two pair of eyes.

Eye, Two, Pairs

Speech is too often not the art of concealing thought, but of quite stifling and suspending thought, so that there is none to conceal.

Art, Speech, Stifling

Thomas Carlyle (2015). “Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdrockh”, p.196, The Floating Press

Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.

Business, Learning, Planning

Dishonesty is the raw material not of quacks only, but also in great part dupes.

Lying, Raw Materials, Dupes

Thomas Carlyle, Chris Vanden Bossche (2002). “Historical Essays”, p.43, Univ of California Press

A man perfects himself by working.

Work, Men

Thomas Carlyle (2016). “Past and Present: The Historian”, p.189, 北戴河出版

Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will.

Inspirational, Dance, World

Of all your troubles, great and small, the greatest are the ones that don't happen at all.

Leadership, Worry, Trouble

If Hero means sincere man, why may not every one of us be a Hero?

Hero, Mean, Men

Thomas Carlyle (1966). “On Heroes, Hero-worship, and the Heroic in History”, p.127, U of Nebraska Press

Music is well said to be the speech of angels.

Inspirational, Music, Angel

Thomas Carlyle (1888). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: Collected and Republished (first Time, 1839; Final, 1869)”

Oh, give us the man who sings at his work.

Motivational, Happiness, Work

The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.

Innovation, Insightful, Novelty

Thomas Carlyle (1840). “Works”, p.116

See deep enough, and you see musically.

Enough, Music Healing, Music And Healing

Thomas Carlyle (1841). “On heroes, hero-worship, & the heroic in history: six lectures ; reported, with emendations and additions”, p.135

The world is a thing that a man must learn to despise, and even to neglect, before he can learn to reverence it, and work in it and for it.

Men, World, Neglect

War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle.

Peace, War, Fighting

"Patriotism: A Menace to Liberty" by Emma Goldman, chapter five of Anarchism and Other Essays, 1911.

Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.

Animal, Men, Tools

'Sartor Resartus' (1834) bk. 1, ch. 5

Let each become all that he was created capable of being.

Achievement, Intellectual, Excellence

"Jean Paul Friedrich Richter" (1827)

A man with a half volition goes backwards and forwards, and makes no way on the smoothest road; a man with a whole volition advances on the roughest, and will reach his purpose, if there be even a little worthiness in it. The man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder - a waif, a nothing, a no man. Have a purpose in life and having it, throw such strength of mind and muscle into your work as God has given you.

Attitude, Men, Mind

"Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Collected and Republished". Book by Thomas Carlyle, 2008.

Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist.

Demand, Parrots, Teach

The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self activity.

Book, Reading, Writing

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