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The coldest word was once a glowing new metaphor.
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
We do everything by custom, even believe by it our very axioms, let us boast of free-thinking as we may, are oftenest simply such beliefs as we have never heard questioned.
Thomas Carlyle
The public is anold woman.Let her maunderand mumble.
Thomas Carlyle
Providence has given to the French the empire of the land, to the English that of the sea, to the Germans that of--the air!
Thomas Carlyle
He that works and does some Poem, not he that merely says one, is worthy of the name of Poet.
Thomas Carlyle
Affectation is the product of falsehood.
Thomas Carlyle
All human souls, never so bedarkened, love light light once kindled spreads till all is luminous.
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
Do nothing, only keep agitating, debating and things will destroy themselves.
Thomas Carlyle
The thing is not only to avoid error, but to attain immense masses of truth.
Thomas Carlyle
We have not read an author till we have seen his object, whatever it may be, as he saw it.
Thomas Carlyle
Cease to brag to me of America, and its model institutions and constitutions. America, too, will have to strain its energies, crack its sinews, and all but break its heart, as the rest of us have had to do, in thousand-fold wrestle with the Pythons, and mud-demons, before it can become a babitation for the gods.
Thomas Carlyle
They wrong man greatly who say he is to be seduced by ease. Difficulty, abnegation, martyrdom, death are the allurements that act on the heart of man.
Thomas Carlyle
War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle therefore they take boys from one village and another village, stick them into uniforms, equip them with guns, and let them loose like wild beasts against one other.
Thomas Carlyle
Success in life, in anything, depends upon the number of persons that one can make himself agreeable to.
Thomas Carlyle
The great silent man! Looking round on the noisy inanity of the world,--words with little meaning, actions with little worth,--one loves to reflect on the great Empire of Silence.
Thomas Carlyle
Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.
Thomas Carlyle
Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct.
Thomas Carlyle
A man must indeed be a hero to appear such in the eyes of his valet.
Thomas Carlyle
Violence does even justice unjustly.
Thomas Carlyle
There is a majesty and mystery in nature, take her as you will. The essence of poetry comes breathing to a mind that feels from every province of her empire.
Thomas Carlyle
