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All history . . . is an inarticulate Bible.
Thomas Carlyle
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Thomas Carlyle
Age: 85 †
Born: 1795
Born: December 4
Died: 1881
Died: February 5
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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 perfects himself by working.
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There is precious instruction to be got by finding we were wrong.
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The Present is the living sum-total of the whole Past.
Thomas Carlyle
Who is it that loves me and will love me forever with an affection which no chance, no misery, no crime of mine can do away? It is you, my mother.
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
The Ideal is in thyself, the impediments too is in thyself.
Thomas Carlyle
A man must indeed be a hero to appear such in the eyes of his valet.
Thomas Carlyle
Courtesy is the due of man to man not of suit-of-clothes to suit-of-clothes.
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One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO.
Thomas Carlyle
Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being.
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A vein of poetry exists in the hearts of all men.
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The first sin in our universe was Lucifer's self conceit.
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In a certain sense all men are historians.
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Affectation is the product of falsehood.
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Professors of the Dismal Science, I perceive the length of your tether is now pretty well run and I must request you to talk a little lower in the future.
Thomas Carlyle
Democracy means despair of finding any heroes to govern you, and contented putting up with the want of them.
Thomas Carlyle
O Time! Time! how it brings forth and devours! And the roaring flood of existence rushes on forever similar, forever changing!
Thomas Carlyle
The eye sees what it brings the power to see.
Thomas Carlyle
Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
