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The Present is the living sum-total of the whole Past.
Thomas Carlyle
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Thomas Carlyle
Age: 85 †
Born: 1795
Born: December 4
Died: 1881
Died: February 5
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More quotes by Thomas Carlyle
Unity, agreement, is always silent or soft-voiced it is only discord that loudly proclaims itself.
Thomas Carlyle
No good book or good thing of any kind shows it best face at first. No the most common quality of in a true work of art that has excellence and depth, is that at first sight it produces a certain disappointment.
Thomas Carlyle
Heroes have gone out quacks have come in the reign of quacks has not ended with the nineteenth century. The sceptre is held with a firmer grasp the empire has a wider boundary. We are all the slaves of quackery in one shape or another. Indeed, one portion of our being is always playing the successful quack to the other.
Thomas Carlyle
Thought, true labor of any kind, highest virtue itself, is it not the daughter of Pain?
Thomas Carlyle
May blessings be upon the head of Cadmus, the Phoenicians, or whoever it was that invented books.
Thomas Carlyle
A background of wrath, which can be stirred up to the murderous infernal pitch, does lie in every man.
Thomas Carlyle
Nine-tenths of the miseries and vices of mankind proceed from idleness.
Thomas Carlyle
The stifled hum of midnight, when traffic has lain down to rest, and the chariot wheels of Vanity, still rolling here and there through distant streets, are bearing her to halls roofed in and lighted to the due pitch for her and only vice and misery, to prowl or to moan like night birds, are abroad.
Thomas Carlyle
Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can.
Thomas Carlyle
If you look deep enough you will see music the heart of nature being everywhere music.
Thomas Carlyle
Science has done much for us but it is a poor science that would hide from us the great deep sacred infinitude of Nescience, on which all science swims as a mere superficial film.
Thomas Carlyle
All history . . . is an inarticulate Bible.
Thomas Carlyle
Nature admits no lie.
Thomas Carlyle
Be not a slave of words.
Thomas Carlyle
Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct.
Thomas Carlyle
Youth is to all the glad season of life but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.
Thomas Carlyle
Democracy will itself accomplish the salutary universal change from delusive to real, and make a new blessed world of us by and by.
Thomas Carlyle
Laws themselves, political Constitutions, are not our Life but only the house wherein our Life is led.
Thomas Carlyle
No man lives without jostling and being jostled in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.
Thomas Carlyle
I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
Thomas Carlyle
