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

“If a book comes from the heart, it will contrive to reach other hearts; all art and author-craft are of small amount to that.”

Art Book Reading

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Thomas Carlyle

Essayist, Historian, Novelist

Angry

“There is but one thing without honor, smitten with eternal barrenness, inability to do or to be,-insincerity, unbelief.”

Honor Inability Infidelity

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Creative

“Infinite is the help man can yield to man.”

Men Yield

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Angry

“Not one false man but doth uncountable evil.”

Men Evil

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Philosophical

“The universe is but one vast Symbol of God.”

Soul Diversity Symbols

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Angry

“O poor mortals, how ye make this earth bitter for each other.”

Earth Poor

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Love

“Love is ever the beginning of knowledge as fire is of light.”

Life Love Is

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Philosophical

“For, strictly considered, what is all Knowledge too but recorded Experience, and a product of History; of which, therefore, Reasoning and Belief, no less than Action and Passion, are essential materials?”

History Products

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Ambitious

“The great law of culture is, Let each become all that he was created capable of being; expand, if possible, to his full growth; resisting all impediments, casting off all foreign, especially all noxious adhesions, and show himself at length in his own shape and stature be these what they may.”

Law Growth Casting Off

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Grateful

“No conquest can ever become permanent which does not show itself beneficial to the conquered as well as to the conquerors.”

Doe Shows Victory

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Courageous

“Evil, once manfully fronted, ceases to be evil; there is generous battle-hope in place of dead, passive misery; the evil itself has become a kind of good.”

Evil Battle Misery

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Love

“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!”

Art Dream Mother

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