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The Highest Being reveals himself in man.
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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After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books.
Thomas Carlyle
The public is anold woman.Let her maunderand mumble.
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
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
No good book or good thing of any kind shows it best face at first. No the most common quality of in a true work of art that has excellence and depth, is that at first sight it produces a certain disappointment.
Thomas Carlyle
Rest is for the dead.
Thomas Carlyle
As there is no danger of our becoming, any of us, Mahometans (i.e. Muslim), I mean to say all the good of him I justly can.
Thomas Carlyle
Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.
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How, without clothes, could we possess the master organ, soul's seat and true pineal gland of the body social--I mean a purse?
Thomas Carlyle
May blessings be upon the head of Cadmus, the Phoenicians, or whoever it was that invented books.
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Intellect is the soul of man, the only immortal part of him.
Thomas Carlyle
Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.
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Books are a triviality. Life alone is great.
Thomas Carlyle
A Fourth Estate, of Able Editors, springs up.
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Doubt of any kind cannot be resolved except by action.
Thomas Carlyle
The greatest event for the world is the arrival of a new and wise person.
Thomas Carlyle
O thou who art able to write a book which once in the two centuries or oftener there is a man gifted to do, envy not him whom they name city-builder, and inexpressibly pity him whom they name conqueror or city-burner.
Thomas Carlyle
It is through symbols that man consciously or unconsciously lives, works and has his being.
Thomas Carlyle
Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
Thomas Carlyle
I call that [Book of Job], apart from all theories about it, one of the grandest things ever written with pen.
Thomas Carlyle
