Thomas Carlyle Quotes

820 quotes · Essayist, Historian, Novelist

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Thomas Carlyle Quotes

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Thomas Carlyle

Essayist, Historian, Novelist

Melancholic

“Alas! while the body stands so broad and brawny, must the soul lie blinded, dwarfed, stupefied, almost annihilated? Alas! this was, too, a breath of God, bestowed in heaven, but on earth never to be unfolded!”

Lying Soul Heaven

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Thomas Carlyle

Essayist, Historian, Novelist

Courageous

“Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation.”

Suffering Hard Work Reform

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Philosophical

“The whole past is the procession of the present.”

Past History

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Calm

“Rest is for the dead.”

Death Dying

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Wise

“I grow daily to honor facts more and more, and theory less and less.”

Facts Atheism Honor

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Spiritual

“Wonder is the basis of worship.”

Wonder Worship

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Philosophical

“The Present is the living sum-total of the whole Past.”

Past History

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Philosophical

“Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.”

Men Past Goodness

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Wise

“Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being.”

Culture Process Capability

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Philosophical

“To know, to get into the truth of anything, is ever a mystic art, of which the best logic's can but babble on the surface.”

Art Logic Spirituality

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Spiritual

“This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle; wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.”

Thinking Science Magic In The World

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Grateful

“Good Christian people, here lies for you an inestimable loan; take all heed thereof, in all carefulness, employ it: with high recompense, or else with heavy penalty, will it one day be required back.”

Children Lying Christian

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