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Happy the People whose Annals are blank in History Books!
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
What is all Knowledge too but recorded Experience, and a product of History of which, therefore, Reasoning and Belief, no less than Action and Passion, are essential materials?
Thomas Carlyle
The purpose of man is in action not thought.
Thomas Carlyle
The English are a dumb people. They can do great acts, but not describe them.
Thomas Carlyle
Of all God's creatures, Man alone is poor.
Thomas Carlyle
Blessed is he who has found his work let him ask no other blessedness. He has a work, a Life-purpose... Get your happiness out of your work or you will never know what real happiness is... Even in the meanest sorts of Labour, the whole soul of a man is composed into a kind of real harmony the instant he sets himself to work!
Thomas Carlyle
Thought is the parent of the deed.
Thomas Carlyle
I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
Thomas Carlyle
If you look deep enough you will see music the heart of nature being everywhere music.
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
Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope this world of his is emphatically the place of hope.
Thomas Carlyle
He who cannot withal keep his mind to himself cannot practice any considerable thing whatsoever.
Thomas Carlyle
The mystical bond of brotherhood makes all men brothers.
Thomas Carlyle
How indestructibly the good grows, and propagates itself, even among the weedy entanglements of evil.
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
A sad spectacle. If they be inhabited, what a scope for misery and folly. If they be not inhabited, what a waste of space.
Thomas Carlyle
A fair day's wages for a fair day's work.
Thomas Carlyle
See deep enough, and you see musically.
Thomas Carlyle
Earnestness alone makes life eternity.
Thomas Carlyle
Woe to him, . . . who has no court of appeal against the world's judgment.
Thomas Carlyle
Insurrection, never so necessary, is a most sad necessity and governors who wait for that to instruct them are surely getting into the fatalest course.
Thomas Carlyle
