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Thomas Carlyle Quotes about Heart

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If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.

If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.

Music, Heart, Looks

Men's hearts ought not to be set against one another, but set with one another and all against evil only.

Heart, Men, Evil

Thomas Carlyle (1870). “Past and Present”, p.21

A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy.

Laughter, Kindness, Heart

It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.

Heart, Mind

Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.50, Lulu.com

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

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

Let him who gropes painfully in darkness or uncertain light, and prays vehemently that the dawn may ripen into day, lay this precept well to heart: "Do the duty which lies nearest to thee," which thou know to be a duty! Thy second duty will already have become clearer.

Lying, Heart, Light

1833-4 Sartor Resartus, bk.2, ch.9.

Trust not the heart of that man for whom old clothes are not venerable.

Heart, Men, Clothes

1833-4 Sartor Resartus, bk.3, ch.6.

Labor is life: from the inmost heart of the worker rises his God-given force, the sacred celestial life-essence breathed into him by Almighty God!

Heart, Essence, Sacred

Thomas Carlyle (1843). “Past and Present”, p.113

The word of Mohammad is a voice direct from nature's own heart - all else is wind in comparison.

Heart, Wind, Voice

What an enormous magnifier is tradition! How a thing grows in the human memory and in the human imagination, when love, worship, and all that lies in the human heart, is there to encourage it

Memories, Lying, Heart

Thomas Carlyle (1841). “On Heroes, Hero-Worship,&the Heroic in History. Six Lectures. Reported with emendations and additions”, p.41

Let one who wants to move and convince others, first be convinced and moved themselves. If a person speaks with genuine earnestness the thoughts, the emotion and the actual condition of their own heart, others will listen because we all are knit together by the tie of sympathy.

Moving, Heart, Ties

Feel it in thy heart and then say whether it is of God!

Heart, Feels

Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (2010). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.155, Cambridge University Press

It is great, and there is no other greatness-to make one nook of God's Creation more fruitful, better, more worthy of God; to make some human heart a little wiser, manlier, happier-more blessed.

Blessed, Heart, Greatness

The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity.

Heart, Men, Vanity

Nakedness, hunger, distress of all kinds, death itself have been cheerfully suffered, when the heart was right. It is the feeling of injustice that is insupportable to all men.

Heart, Men, Feelings

Chartism ch. 5 (1839)

The cut of a garment speaks of intellect and talent and the color of temperament and heart.

Heart, Cutting, Color

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.

Heart, Men, Ease

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

Men are grown mechanical in head and in the heart, as well as in the hand. They have lost faith in individual endeavour, and in natural force of any kind.

Heart, Men, Hands

1829 Signs of the Times.

Cease to brag to me of America, and its model institutions and constitutions. America, too, will have to strain its energies, crack its sinews, and all but break its heart, as the rest of us have had to do, in thousand-fold wrestle with the Pythons, and mud-demons, before it can become a babitation for the gods.

Heart, America, Python

Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.496, Lulu.com

Taste, if it mean anything but a paltry connoisseurship, must mean a general susceptibility to truth and nobleness, a sense to discern, and a heart to love and reverence all beauty, order, goodness, wheresoever, or in whatsoever forms and accompaniments they are to be seen. This surely implies, as its chief condition, not any given external rank or situation, but a finely-gifted mind, purified into harmony with itself, into keenness and justness of vision; above all, kindled into love and generous admiration.

Mean, Heart, Order

Thomas Carlyle (1840). “Critical and miscellaneous essays, collected and republ”, p.50

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

In this world there is one godlike thing, the essence of all that was or ever will be of godlike in this world: the veneration done to Human Worth by the hearts of men.

Appreciation, Heart, Men

"The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle".

In no time whatever can small critics entirely eradicate out of living men's hearts a certain altogether peculiar collar reverence for Great Men--genuine admiration, loyalty, adora-tion.

Loyalty, Appreciation, Heart

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