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Thomas Carlyle
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Thomas Carlyle
Age: 85 †
Born: 1795
Born: December 4
Died: 1881
Died: February 5
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Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
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Nature, after all, is still the grand agent in making poets.
Thomas Carlyle
We do everything by custom, even believe by it our very axioms, let us boast of free-thinking as we may, are oftenest simply such beliefs as we have never heard questioned.
Thomas Carlyle
If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.
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The first sin in our universe was Lucifer's self conceit.
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Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom.
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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
Thomas Carlyle
In a symbol there is concealment and yet revelation: here therefore, by Silence and by Speech acting together, comes a double significance.
Thomas Carlyle
Nothing that was worthy in the past departs no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.
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The press is the fourth estate of the realm.
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Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.
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The eye of the intellect sees in all objects what it brought with it the means of seeing.
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No man sees far, most see no farther than their noses.
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Of our thinking it is but the upper surface that we shape into articulate thought underneath the region of argument and conscious discourse lies the region of meditation.
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I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
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A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.
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The great silent man! Looking round on the noisy inanity of the world,--words with little meaning, actions with little worth,--one loves to reflect on the great Empire of Silence.
Thomas Carlyle
Variety is the condition of harmony.
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Shakespeare says, we are creatures that look before and after the more surprising that we do not look around a little, and see what is passing under our very eyes.
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The true epic of our times is not Arm's and the Man, but Tools and the Man--an infinitely wider kind of epic.
Thomas Carlyle
