Quotes by Thomas Carlyle
Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.
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Histories are a kind of distilled newspapers.
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History is a mighty dramos, enacted upon the theatre of times, with suns for lamps and eternity for a background.
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No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.
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We have profoundly forgotten everywhere that Cash-payment is not the sole relation of human beings.
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Battles, in these ages, are transacted by mechanism; with the slightest possible development of human individuality or spontaneity; men now even die, and kill one another, in an artificial manner.
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What you see, yet can not see over, is as good as infinite.
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Silence is as deep as eternity; speech, shallow as time.
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A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun.
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Burke said there were Three Estates in Parliament; but, in the Reporters' gallery yonder, there sat a Fourth Estate more important far than they all.
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The beginning of all wisdom is to look fixedly on clothes, or even with armed eyesight, till they become transparent.
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Oh, Heaven, it is mysterious, it is awful to consider that we not only carry a future Ghost within us; but are, in very deed, Ghosts!
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Is man's civilization only a wrappage, through which the savage nature of him can still burst, infernal as ever?
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History is the essence of innumerable biographies.
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It is part of my creed that the only poetry is history, could we tell it right.
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Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.
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Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
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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!
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O poor mortals, how ye make this earth bitter for each other.
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Have not I myself known five hundred living soldiers sabred into crows' meat for a piece of glazed cotton, which they call their flag; which had you sold it at any market-cross, would not have brought above three groschen?
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What mountains of dead ashes, wreck and burnt bones, does assiduous pedantry dig up from the past time and name it History.
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The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.
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If Jesus Christ were to come today people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he has to say, and make fun of it.
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No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.
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History is a great dust heap.
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In a certain sense all men are historians.
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Fire is the best of servants; but what a master!
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The fine arts once divorcing themselves from truth are quite certain to fall mad, if they do not die.
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If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of the doubt.
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Be not the slave of Words.
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