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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Silence is as deep as eternity; speech, shallow as time.
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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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Is man's civilization only a wrappage, through which the savage nature of him can still burst, infernal as ever?
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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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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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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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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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In a certain sense all men are historians.
Carlyle, Thomas
Fire is the best of servants; but what a master!
Carlyle, Thomas
If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of the doubt.
Carlyle, Thomas