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Rich as we are in biography, ...

Rich as we are in biography, a well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one; and there are certainly many more men whose history deserves to be recorded than persons willing and able to record it.

Thomas Carlyle 1193 quotes

Is not cant the materia prima...

Is not cant the materia prima of the devil, from which all falsehoods, imbecilities, abominations, body themselves, from which no true thing can come? For cant is itself the properly a double-distilled lie, the second power of a lie.

Thomas Carlyle 1193 quotes

Under all speech that is good...

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.

Thomas Carlyle 1193 quotes

Are we not Spirits, that are ...

Are we not Spirits, that are shaped into a body, into an Appearance; and that fade away again into air and Invisibility? Oh, Heaven, it is mysterious, it is awful to consider that we not only carry a future Ghost within us; but are, in very deed, Ghosts! These Limbs, whence had we them; this stormy Force; this life-blood with its burning Passion? They are dust and shadow; a Shadow-system gathered round our Me; wherein, through some moments or years, the Divine Essence is to be revealed in the Flesh.

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We have our little theory on ...

We have our little theory on all human and divine things. Poetry, the workings of genius itself, which, in all times, with one or another meaning, has been called Inspiration, and held to be mysterious and inscrutable, is no longer without its scientific exposition. The building of the lofty rhyme is like any other masonry or bricklaying: we have theories of its rise, height, decline and fall -- which latter, it would seem, is now near, among all people.

Thomas Carlyle 1193 quotes

Custom doth make dotards of u...

Custom doth make dotards of us all.

Thomas Carlyle 1193 quotes

That there should one man die...

That there should one man die ignorant who had capacity for knowledge, this I call a tragedy.

Thomas Carlyle 1193 quotes

Statistics, one may hope, wil...

Statistics, one may hope, will improve gradually, and become good for something. Meanwhile, it is to be feared the crabbed satirist was partly right, as things go: "A judicious man," says he, "looks at Statistics, not to get knowledge, but to save himself from having ignorance foisted on him."

Thomas Carlyle 1193 quotes

Oblivion is the dark page, wh...

Oblivion is the dark page, whereon Memory writes her light-beam characters, and makes them legible; were it all light, nothing could be read there, any more than if it were all darkness.

Thomas Carlyle 1193 quotes

Universal history, the histor...

Universal history, the history of what man has accomplished in this world, is at bottom the History of the Great Men who have worked here.

Thomas Carlyle 1193 quotes

True friends, like ivy and th...

True friends, like ivy and the wall Both stand together, and together fall.

Thomas Carlyle 1193 quotes

Great is journalism. Is not e...

Great is journalism. Is not every able editor a ruler of the world, being the persuader of it?

Thomas Carlyle 1193 quotes

It is no very good symptom, e...

It is no very good symptom, either of nations or individuals, that they deal much in vaticination. Happy men are full of the present, for its bounty suffices them; and wise men also, for its duties engage them. Our grand business undoubtedly is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what clearly lies at hand.

Thomas Carlyle 1193 quotes

We are to remember what an um...

We are to remember what an umpire Nature is; what a greatness, composure of depth and tolerance there is in her. You take wheat to cast into the Earth's bosom; your wheat may be mixed with chaff, chopped straw, barn-sweepings, dust and all imaginable rubbish; no matter: you cast it into the kind just Earth; she grows the wheat, - the whole rubbish she silently absorbs, shrouds it in, says nothing of the rubbish.

Thomas Carlyle 1193 quotes

Nature is the time-vesture of...

Nature is the time-vesture of God that reveals Him to the wise, and hides him from the foolish.

Thomas Carlyle 1193 quotes

Love is ever the beginning of...

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

Thomas Carlyle 1193 quotes

What are your Axioms, and Cat...

What are your Axioms, and Categories, and Systems, and Aphorisms? Words, words.... Be not the slave of Words.

Thomas Carlyle 1193 quotes

Quackery gives birth to nothi...

Quackery gives birth to nothing; gives death to all things.

Thomas Carlyle 1193 quotes

There is but one thing withou...

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

Thomas Carlyle 1193 quotes

In the true Literary Man ther...

In the true Literary Man there is thus ever, acknowledged or not by the world, a sacredness: he is the light of the world; the world's Priest; -- guiding it, like a sacred Pillar of Fire, in its dark pilgrimage through the waste of Time.

Thomas Carlyle 1193 quotes

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