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Speech is great, but silence is greater.
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 true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.
Thomas Carlyle
In a certain sense all men are historians.
Thomas Carlyle
So much of truth, only under an ancient obsolete vesture, but the spirit of it still true, do I find in the Paganism of old nations. Nature is still divine, the revelation of the workings of God the Hero is still worshipable: this, under poor cramped incipient forms, is what all Pagan religions have struggled, as they could, to set forth.
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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.
Thomas Carlyle
It is not a lucky word, this name impossible no good comes of those who have it so often in their mouths.
Thomas Carlyle
The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious.
Thomas Carlyle
The authentic insight and experience of any human soul, were it but insight and experience in hewing of wood and drawing of water, is real knowledge, a real possession and acquirement.
Thomas Carlyle
What unknown seas of feeling lie in man, and will from time to time break through!
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
Woe to him, . . . who has no court of appeal against the world's judgment.
Thomas Carlyle
Once the mind has been expanded by a big idea, it will never go back to its original state.
Thomas Carlyle
Whose school-hours are all the days and nights of our existence.
Thomas Carlyle
A false man found a religion? Why, a false man cannot build a brick house!
Thomas Carlyle
The great law of culture is, Let each become all that he was created capable of being expand, if possible, to his full growth resisting all impediments, casting off all foreign, especially all noxious adhesions, and show himself at length in his own shape and stature be these what they may.
Thomas Carlyle
History is the distillation of rumour.
Thomas Carlyle
Once turn to practice, error and truth will no longer consort together.
Thomas Carlyle
When we can drain the Ocean into mill-ponds, and bottle up the Force of Gravity, to be sold by retail, in gas jars then may we hope to comprehend the infinitudes of man's soul under formulas of Profit and Loss and rule over this too, as over a patent engine, by checks, and valves, and balances.
Thomas Carlyle
The age of miracles is forever here.
Thomas Carlyle
Happy the People whose Annals are blank in History Books!
Thomas Carlyle
Wonderful Force of Public Opinion! We must act and walk in all points as it prescribes follow the traffic it bids us, realize the sum of money, the degree of influence it expects of us, or we shall be lightly esteemed certain mouthfuls of articulate wind will be blown at us, and this what mortal courage can front?
Thomas Carlyle
