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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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The eye sees what it brings the power to see.
Thomas Carlyle
Just in ratio as knowledge increases, faith diminishes.
Thomas Carlyle
Metaphysics is the attempt of the mind to rise above the mind.
Thomas Carlyle
Let me have my own way in exactly everything and a sunnier and pleasanter creature does not exist.
Thomas Carlyle
All reform except a moral one will prove unavailing.
Thomas Carlyle
Without kindness there can be no true joy.
Thomas Carlyle
Thought, true labor of any kind, highest virtue itself, is it not the daughter of Pain?
Thomas Carlyle
Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
Thomas Carlyle
If I say that Shakespeare is the greatest of intellects, I have said all concerning him. But there is more in Shakespeare's intellect than we have yet seen. It is what I call an unconscious intellect there is more virtue in it that he himself is aware of.
Thomas Carlyle
Considering the multitude of mortals that handle the pen in these days, and can mostly spell, and write without glaring violations of grammar, the question naturally arises: How is it, then, that no work proceeds from them, bearing any stamp of authenticity and permanence of worth for more than one day?
Thomas Carlyle
Friendship, in the old heroic sense of that term, no longer exists. It is in reality no longer expected or recognized as a virtue among men.
Thomas Carlyle
Heroes, it would seem, exist always and a certain worship of them.
Thomas Carlyle
Goethe's devil is a cultivated personage and acquainted with the modern sciences sneers at witchcraft and the black art even while employing them, and doubts most things, nay, half disbelieves even his own existence.
Thomas Carlyle
Of all your troubles, great and small, the greatest are the ones that don't happen at all.
Thomas Carlyle
The world is a thing that a man must learn to despise, and even to neglect, before he can learn to reverence it, and work in it and for it.
Thomas Carlyle
Scarcely two hundred years back can Fame recollect articulately at all and there she but maunders and mumbles.
Thomas Carlyle
Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct.
Thomas Carlyle
Work earnestly at anything, you will by degrees learn to work at all things.
Thomas Carlyle
It is no very good symptom, either of nations or individuals, that they deal much in vaticination. Happy men are full of the present, for its bounty suffices them and wise men also, for its duties engage them. Our grand business undoubtedly is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what clearly lies at hand.
Thomas Carlyle
We have not read an author till we have seen his object, whatever it may be, as he saw it.
Thomas Carlyle
