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Thomas Carlyle Quotes - Page 6

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There can be no acting or doing of any kind till it be recognized that there is a thing to be done; the thing once recognized, doing in a thousand shapes becomes possible.

There can be no acting or doing of any kind till it be recognized that there is a thing to be done; the thing once recognized, doing in a thousand shapes becomes possible.

Acting, Done, Shapes

Thomas Carlyle (1891). “The Socialism and Unsocialism of Thomas Carlyle: Introduction, by the editor. Book I. Proem. Book II. The modern worker. Book III. Signs of the times. Book IV. Horoscope. Essay on the genius and tendency of the writings of Thomas Carlyle, by Joseph Mazzini. v. 2. Book V. The French revolution. Book VI. Horoscope. Essay on the genius and tendency of the writings of Thomas Carlyle, by Joseph Mazzini”

If a man was great while living, he becomes tenfold greater when dead.

Men, Fame, Greater

Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.108, Lulu.com

Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do that with all thy might and leave the issues calmly to God.

Hands, Issues, Might

In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment.

Inspirational, Notable, Moments

Thomas Carlyle, G. B. Tennyson (1984). “Carlyle Reader”, p.180, CUP Archive

Man makes circumstances, and spiritually as well as economically, is the artificer of his own fortune.

Men, Fortune, Circumstances

Thomas Carlyle (1857). “Critical & Miscellaneous Essays: Collected & Republished”, p.228

Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.

Writing, Labor, Idleness

Thomas Carlyle, G. B. Tennyson (1984). “Carlyle Reader”, p.16, CUP Archive

Intellect is the soul of man, the only immortal part of him.

Men, Soul, Immortal

Of all God's creatures, Man alone is poor.

Men, Poor, Creatures

Thomas Carlyle, Jane Welsh Carlyle (1909). “The Love Letters of Thomas Carlyle and Jane Welsh”

The hell of these days is the fear of not getting along, especially of not making money.

Making Money, Hell, These Days

All men, if they work not as in the great taskmaster's eye, will work wrong, and work unhappily for themselves and for you.

Eye, Responsibility, Men

Hero-worship exists, has existed, and will forever exist, universally, among mankind.

Hero, Forever, Worship

Thomas Carlyle (1848). “Past and Present: Chartism, and Sartor Resartus”

Woe to him that claims obedience when it is not due; woe to him that refuses it when it is.

Woe, Obedience, Claims

Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.228, Lulu.com

If a book comes from the heart, it will contrive to reach other hearts; all art and author-craft are of small amount to that.

Art, Book, Reading

Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.136, Lulu.com

Just in the ratio knowledge increases, faith decreases.

Ratios, Increase, Decrease

Government is emphatically a machine: to the discontented a taxing machine, to the contented a machine for securing property.

Government, Liberty, Machines

Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.19, Lulu.com

History: A distillation of rumor.

History, Rumor, Distillation

Thomas Carlyle (1857). “The French Revolution: a History: In Three Parts: I. the Bastille; II. the Constitution; III. the Guillotine : in Two Volumes”, p.200

The crash of the whole solar and stellar systems could only kill you once.

Crash, Stellar, Whole

Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the architect of circumstance.

Men, Bricks And Mortar, Empathy

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Nathan Haskell Dole, George Henry Lewes, Thomas Carlyle, John Storer Cobb (1902*). “The Works of Goethe”

The Ideal is in thyself, the impediments too is in thyself.

Psychology, Ideals, Impediments

Thomas Carlyle, Rodger L. Tarr, Mark Engel (2000). “Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh in Three Books”, p.145, Univ of California Press

Respectable Professors of the Dismal Science.

Economics, Professors, Respectable

1850 Latter-Day Pamphlets, no.1,'The Present Time'.

Thought is the parent of the deed.

Thinking, Parent, Deeds

A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun.

Work, Men, Sight

1839 Chartism, ch.4.

Woe to him, . . . who has no court of appeal against the world's judgment.

World, Woe, Judgment

Thomas Carlyle (1872). “Works”, p.274

The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows. The greatest of faults, I should say is to be conscious of none.

Secret, Faults, Conscious

All true work is sacred. In all true work, were it but true hand work, there is something of divineness. Labor, wide as the earth, has its summit in Heaven.

Work, Hands, Heaven

Thomas Carlyle (1885*). “Complete Works: Frederick the Great, v. 7. Past and present. The portraits of John Knox. Miscellanies”

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