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There is precious instruction to be got by finding we were wrong.

There is precious instruction to be got by finding we were wrong.

Instruction, Findings

Thomas Carlyle (1882). “The Hero as Prophet. Mahomet: Islam Lecture 2: Heroes & Hero Worship”

Authors are the vanguard in the march of mind, the intellectual backwoodsmen, reclaiming from the idle wilderness new territories for the thought and activity of their happier brethren.

Intellectual, Mind, Territory

Thomas Carlyle (1845). “The Life of Friedrich Schiller: Comprehending an Examination of His Works”, p.56, London : Chapman and Hall

The soul gives unity to what it looks at with love.

Love, Giving, Soul

Why multiply instances? It is written, the Heavens and the Earth shall fade away like a Vesture; which indeed they are: the Time-vesture of the Eternal. Whatsoever sensibly exists, whatsoever represents Spirit to Spirit, is properly a Clothing, a suit of Raiment, put on for a season, and to be laid off. Thus in this one pregnant subject of CLOTHES, rightly understood, is included all that men have thought, dreamed, done, and been: the whole External Universe and what it holds is but Clothing; and the essence of all Science lies in the PHILOSOPHY OF CLOTHES.

Philosophy, Lying, Men

Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (2010). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.58, Cambridge University Press

Nature, after all, is still the grand agent in making poets.

Agents, Poet, Stills

Thomas Carlyle (1872). “Works”, p.13

The lightning spark of thought generated in the solitary mind awakens its likeness in another mind.

Innovation, Mind, Lightning

The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall.

Real, Men, Gunpowder

Great is journalism. Is not every able editor a ruler of the world, being the persuader of it?

Editors, World, Able

Thomas Carlyle (2016). “The French Revolution: The Historian”, p.294, 北戴河出版

Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.

Happiness, Laughter, Joy

Laws, written, if not on stone tables, yet on the azure of infinitude, in the inner heart of God's creation, certain as life, certain as death, are there, and thou shalt not disobey them.

Heart, Science, Law

Thomas Carlyle (1872). “Past and Present”, p.198

All true work is sacred.

Sacred, Labor

Thomas Carlyle (1862). “Past and Present: Chartism, and Sartor Resartus”, p.203

Laws themselves, political Constitutions, are not our Life; but only the house wherein our Life is led.

Law, House, Political

1838 Critical and Miscellaneous Essays,'History'.

Only perhaps in the United States, which alone of countries can do without governing,every man being at least able to live, and move off into the wilderness, let Congress jargon as it will,can such a form of so-called Government continue for any length of time to torment men with the semblance, when the indispensable substance is not there.

Country, Moving, Men

Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.638, Lulu.com

The greatest event for the world is the arrival of a new and wise person.

Wise, Wisdom, Events

Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

Change, Hope, Pain

Thomas Carlyle (1872). “Works”, p.34

This we take it is the grand characteristic of our age. By our skill in Mechanism, it has come to pass, that in the management ofexternal things we excel all other ages; while in whatever respects the pure moral nature, in true dignity of soul and character, we are perhaps inferior to most civilised ages.

Character, Skills, Soul

Thomas Carlyle (1855). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: By Thomas Carlyle”, p.193

Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.

Men, Healthy, Virtue

Money, in truth, can do much, but it cannot do all. We must know the province of it, and confine it there, and even spurn it back when it wishes to get farther.

Money, Wish, Back When

Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.206, Lulu.com

All destruction, by violent revolution or however it be, is but new creation on a wider scale.

Revolution, Rebellion, Creation

If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated readings deserves to be read at all.

Time, Book, Reading

Thomas Carlyle (1864). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays ...”, p.57

The genuine essence of truth never dies.

Truth, Essence, Genuine

Thomas Carlyle (1840). “On Heroes, Hero-worship and the Heroic in History”, p.74

A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.

Inspirational, Life, Positive

"Jean Paul Friedrich Richter" (1827)

The spiritual is the parent of the practical.

Spiritual, Parent, Spirituality

The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man; whatsoever he believes, he believes it for himself, not for another.

Inspirational, Believe, Men

Thomas Carlyle (1840). “Works”, p.116

Every human being has a right to hear what other wise human beings have spoken to him. It is one of the Rights of Men; a very cruel injustice if you deny it to a man!

Wise, Freedom, Men

1840 Letter to John Sterling, collected in New Letters of Carlyle (1904), vol.1.

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