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Thomas Carlyle Quotes - Page 8

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If there be no enemy there's no fight. If no fight, no victory and if no victory there is no crown.

If there be no enemy there's no fight. If no fight, no victory and if no victory there is no crown.

Fighting, Enemy, Victory

Doubt of any kind cannot be resolved except by action.

Doubt, Action, Kind

The highest ensign that men ever met and embraced under, the Cross itself, had no meaning save an accidental extrinsic one.

Men, Crosses, Mets

Thomas Carlyle, G. B. Tennyson (1984). “Carlyle Reader”, p.278, CUP Archive

A man must indeed be a hero to appear such in the eyes of his valet.

Hero, Eye, Men

Every man has a coward and hero in his soul.

Hero, Men, Soul

The great soul of this world is just.

Justice, Soul, World

A man's religion consists, not of the many things he is in doubt of and tries to believe, but of the few he is assured of and has no need of effort for believing.

Believe, Men, Effort

Thomas Carlyle (1872). “Works”, p.266

The essence of humor is sensibility; warm, tender fellow-feeling with all forms of existence.

Humor, Essence, Feelings

War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle; therefore they take boys from one village and another village, stick them into uniforms, equip them with guns, and let them loose like wild beasts against one other.

Peace, Military, War

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

Enjoying things which are pleasant; that is not the evil; it is the reducing of our moral self to slavery by them that is.

Self, Evil, Wickedness

Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.142, Lulu.com

With stupidity and sound digestion, man may front much.

Men, Stupidity, Sound

Thomas Carlyle (1871). “The Collected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.99

One life; a little gleam of Time between two Eternities; no second chance to us for evermore!

Time, Second Chance, Two

Thomas Carlyle (1860). “Passages selected from the writings of Thomas Carlyle, with a biogr. memoir by T. Ballantyne”, p.207

In books lies the soul fo the whole past time.

Lying, Book, Past

'On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic' (1841) 'The Hero as Man of Letters'

Great men are the commissioned guides of mankind, who rule their fellows because they are wiser.

Wise, Wisdom, Men

Rest is a fine medicine. Let your stomachs rest, ye dyspeptics; let your brain rest, you wearied and worried people of business; let your limbs rest, ye children of toil!

Children, Medicine, People

Violence does even justice unjustly.

Justice, Doe, Violence

Thomas Carlyle (1843). “Past and Present”, p.20

Quackery gives birth to nothing; gives death to all things.

Giving, Birth, All Things

Heroes and Hero-Worship Lect. I

No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, could ever compel the soul of man to believe or to disbelieve: it is his own indefeasible light, that judgment of his; he will reign and believe there by the grace of God alone!

Believe, Men, Light

Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.177, Lulu.com

All work, even cotton-spinning, is noble; work is alone noble.

Life, Positive, Noble

Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.365, Lulu.com

It is not to taste sweet things; but to do noble and true things, and vindicate himself under God's heaven as a God-made man, that the poorest son of Adam dimly longs. Show him the way of doing that, the dullest day-drudge kindles into a hero. They wrong man greatly who say he is to be seduced by ease. Difficulty, abnegation, martyrdom, death, are the allurements that act on the heart of man. Kindle the inner genial life of him, you have a flame that burns up all lower considerations.

Sweet, Hero, Heart

Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.139, Lulu.com

Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.

Birthday, Time, Sorrow

Nine-tenths of the miseries and vices of mankind proceed from idleness.

Vices, Nine, Misery

Thomas Carlyle (1857). “Life of Friedrich Schiller (1825): Life of John Sterling (1851)”, p.38

No man sees far, most see no farther than their noses.

Men, Vision, Noses

Laughter means sympathy.

Laughter, Mean

Thomas Carlyle (1872). “Works”, p.101

Language is called the garment of thought: however, it should rather be, language is the flesh-garment, the body, of thought.

Body, Flesh, Language

'Sartor Resartus' (1834) bk. 1, ch. 11

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