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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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Why did not somebody teach me the constellations, and make me at home in the starry heavens, which are always overhead, and which I don't half know to this day?
Thomas Carlyle
Books are a triviality. Life alone is great.
Thomas Carlyle
A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.
Thomas Carlyle
A Fourth Estate, of Able Editors, springs up.
Thomas Carlyle
Happy season of childhood! Kind Nature, that art to all a bountiful mother that visitest the poor man's hut With auroral radiance and for thy nursling hast provided a soft swathing of love and infinite hope wherein he waxes and slumbers, danced round by sweetest dreams!
Thomas Carlyle
A thought once awakened does not again slumber.
Thomas Carlyle
The eye sees what it brings the power to see.
Thomas Carlyle
The lightning spark of thought generated in the solitary mind awakens its likeness in another mind.
Thomas Carlyle
Biography is the only true history.
Thomas Carlyle
The greatest mistake is to imagine that we never err.
Thomas Carlyle
The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.
Thomas Carlyle
The scandalous bronze-lacquer age of hungry animalisms, spiritual impotences, and mendacities, will have to run its course, till the pit follow it.
Thomas Carlyle
In books lies the soul of the whole Past Time the articulate audible voice of the Past, when the body and material substance of it has altogether vanished like a dream.
Thomas Carlyle
See deep enough, and you see musically.
Thomas Carlyle
Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such it is an accident, not a property of man.
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
Show me the man you honor I know by that symptom, better than by any other, what kind of man you yourself are. For you show me there what your ideal of manhood is what kind of man you long inexpressibly to be.
Thomas Carlyle
It is meritorious to insist on forms religion and all else naturally clothes itself in forms. Everywhere the formed world is the only habitable one.
Thomas Carlyle
No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.
Thomas Carlyle
Habit is the deepest law of human nature
Thomas Carlyle