Thomas Carlyle Quotes

820 quotes · Essayist, Historian, Novelist

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Thomas Carlyle Quotes

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Thomas Carlyle

Essayist, Historian, Novelist

Philosophical

“There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.”

Men Writing Discovery

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Thomas Carlyle

Essayist, Historian, Novelist

Sad

“At worst, is not this an unjust world, full of nothing but beasts of prey, four-footed or two-footed?”

World Two Four

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Angry

“Dishonesty is the raw material not of quacks only, but also in great part dupes.”

Lying Raw Materials

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Hopeful

“It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.”

People Politics

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Angry

“The choking, sweltering, deadly, and killing rule of no rule; the consecration of cupidity and braying of folly, and dim stupidity and baseness, in most of the affairs of men. Slopshirts attainable three-halfpence cheaper by the ruin of living bodies and immortal souls.”

Men Soul Stupidity

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Grateful

“Of all the things which man can do or make here below, by far the most momentous, wonderful, and worthy are the things we call books.”

Men Book Wonderful

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Philosophical

“Neither in tailoring nor in legislating does man proceed by mere accident.”

Men Doe

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Melancholic

“The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.”

Sentimental Mortals

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Philosophical

“The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious.”

Jesus Differences Greatness

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Courageous

“For every one hundred men who can stand adversity there is only one who can withstand prosperity.”

Men Adversity Prosperity

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Funny

“The crash of the whole solar and stellar systems could only kill you once.”

Whole Crash

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Philosophical

“Histories are a kind of distilled newspapers.”

Kind History

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