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The past is always attractive because it is drained of fear.

The past is always attractive because it is drained of fear.

Thomas Carlyle
Past, Attractive, Drained

In books lies the soul fo the whole past time.

Thomas Carlyle
Lying, Book, Past
'On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic' (1841) 'The Hero as Man of Letters'

The leafy blossoming present time springs from the whole past, remembered and unrememberable.

Thomas Carlyle
Spring, Past, Remembrance
Oliver Cromwell, Thomas Carlyle (1859). “Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches: Including the Supplement to the Past Edition : with Elucidations”, p.9

The Present is the living sum-total of the whole Past.

Thomas Carlyle
Past, History, Whole
Thomas Carlyle, G. B. Tennyson (1984). “Carlyle Reader”, p.99, CUP Archive

Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.

Thomas Carlyle
Past, Men, Goodness
Thomas Carlyle (1842). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: Collected and Republished”, p.320

The whole past is the procession of the present.

Thomas Carlyle
Past, History, Whole

The past is all holy to us; the dead are all holy; even they that were wicked when alive.

Thomas Carlyle
Time, Past, Wicked
Thomas Carlyle (1881). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: Collected and Republished”, p.45

Without oblivion, there is no remembrance possible. When both oblivion and memory are wise, when the general soul of man is clear, melodious, true, there may come a modern Iliad as memorial of the Past.

Thomas Carlyle
Wise, Memories, Past
Oliver Cromwell, Thomas Carlyle (1857). “Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches: With Elucidations”, p.6

At the bottom there is no perfect history; there is none such conceivable. All past centuries have rotted down, and gone confusedly dumb and quiet.

Thomas Carlyle
Past, History, Perfect
Thomas Carlyle, Oliver Cromwell, Henry Duff Traill (2010). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.7, Cambridge University Press

Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, altogether past calculation its powers of endurance.

Thomas Carlyle
Past, Endurance, Cheerfulness

Also, what mountains of dead ashes, wreck and burnt bones, does assiduous pedantry dig up from the past time and name it History.

Thomas Carlyle
Past, Names, History
Thomas Carlyle (1843). “Past and Present”, p.36

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