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A well-written Life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
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Schiller", first published in Fraser's Magazine (1831).
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He who would write heroic poems should make his whole life a heroic poem.
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The three great elements of modern civilization, gunpowder, printing, and the Protestant religion.
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Thomas Carlyle |
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Literary men are...a perpetual priesthood.
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Thomas Carlyle |
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In every man's writings, the character of the writer must lie recorded.
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A poet without love were a physical and metaphysical impossibility.
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Thomas Carlyle |
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How does the poet speak to men with power, but by being still more a man than they?
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Thomas Carlyle |
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There is endless merit in a man's knowing when to have done.
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Thomas Carlyle |
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The eye of the intellect "sees in all objects what it brought with it the means of seeing."
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Thomas Carlyle |
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Love is ever the beginning of Knowledge as fire is of light.
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Thomas Carlyle |
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A mystic bond of brotherhood makes all men one.
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Thomas Carlyle |
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History is the essence of innumerable biographies.
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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.
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Thomas Carlyle |
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A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.
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Thomas Carlyle |
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Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
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Thomas Carlyle |
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Wonder, indeed, is, on all hands, dying out: it is the sign of uncultivation to wonder.
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Thomas Carlyle |
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With what scientific stoicism he walks through the land of wonders, unwondering.
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Thomas Carlyle |
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The Public is an old woman. Let her maunder and mumble.
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Thomas Carlyle |
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The stupendous Fourth Estate, whose wide world-embracing influences what eye can take in?
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Thomas Carlyle |
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All work is as seed sown; it grows and spreads, and sows itself anew.
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Thomas Carlyle |
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The work we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.
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Thomas Carlyle |
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Literature is the Thought of thinking Souls.
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Thomas Carlyle |
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All greatness is unconscious, or it is little and naught.
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Thomas Carlyle |
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No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.
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Thomas Carlyle |
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Man is a tool-using animal...Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.
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Thomas Carlyle |
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Be not the slave of Words.
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Close thy Byron; open thy Goethe.
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Thomas Carlyle |
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Wonder is the basis of worship.
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Thomas Carlyle |
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What you see, yet can not see over, is as good as infinite.
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Thomas Carlyle |
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With stupidity and sound digestion man may front much.
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Thomas Carlyle |
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Alas! the fearful Unbelief is unbelief in yourself.
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Thomas Carlyle |
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Love not Pleasure; love God.
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Thomas Carlyle |
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France was long a despotism tempered by epigrams.
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Thomas Carlyle |
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To a shower of gold most things are penetrable.
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Thomas Carlyle |
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The people may eat grass": hasty words, which fly abroad irrevocable--and will send back tidings.
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A whiff of grapeshot.
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O poor mortals, how ye make this earth bitter for each other.
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Thomas Carlyle |
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Do nothing, only keep agitating, debating; and things will destroy themselves.
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Thomas Carlyle |
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History a distillation of Rumour.
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Thomas Carlyle |
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He that has a secret should not only hide it, but hide that he has it to hide.
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Thomas Carlyle |
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The All of Things is an infinite conjugation of the verb To do.
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Thomas Carlyle |
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The difference between Orthodoxy or Mydoxy and Heterodoxy or Thy-doxy.
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Thomas Carlyle |
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So here hath been dawningSlip useless away.
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