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The Ideal is in thyself, the impediments too is in thyself.
Thomas Carlyle
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Thomas Carlyle
Age: 85 †
Born: 1795
Born: December 4
Died: 1881
Died: February 5
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Philosopher of Chelsea
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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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The true epic of our times is not Arm's and the Man, but Tools and the Man--an infinitely wider kind of epic.
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Men are grown mechanical in head and in the heart, as well as in the hand. They have lost faith in individual endeavour, and in natural force of any kind.
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May blessings be upon the head of Cadmus, the Phoenicians, or whoever it was that invented books.
Thomas Carlyle
Affectation is the product of falsehood.
Thomas Carlyle
Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.
Thomas Carlyle
Of all your troubles, great and small, the greatest are the ones that don't happen at all.
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History is the essence of innumerable biographies.
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There is but one temple in this Universe: The Body. We speak to God whenever we lay our hands upon it.
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A man lives by believing something.
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A witty statesman said, you might prove anything by figures.
Thomas Carlyle
There must be a new world if there is to be any world at all!... These days of universal death must be days of universal new birth, if the ruin is not to be total and final! It is Time to make the dullest man consider and ask himself, Whence he came? Whither he is bound?
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There is often more spiritual force in a proverb than in whole philosophical systems.
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Thought will not work except in silence.
Thomas Carlyle
The goal of yesterday will be our starting-point to-morrow.
Thomas Carlyle
The choking, sweltering, deadly, and killing rule of no rule the consecration of cupidity and braying of folly, and dim stupidity and baseness, in most of the affairs of men. Slopshirts attainable three-halfpence cheaper by the ruin of living bodies and immortal souls.
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Habit is the deepest law of human nature
Thomas Carlyle
Work earnestly at anything, you will by degrees learn to work at all things.
Thomas Carlyle
Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity speech is shallow as Time.
Thomas Carlyle
If Hero means sincere man, why may not every one of us be a Hero?
Thomas Carlyle
