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Men are grown mechanical in h...

Men are grown mechanical in head and in the heart, as well as in the hand. They have lost faith in individual endeavour, and in natural force of any kind.

Thomas Carlyle 1193 quotes

Alas! we know that ideals can...

Alas! we know that ideals can never be completely embodied in practice. Ideals must ever lie a great way off--and we will thankfully content ourselves with any not intolerable approximation thereto! Let no man, as Schiller says, too querulously "measure by a scale of perfection the meager product of reality" in this poor world of ours.

Thomas Carlyle 1193 quotes

Force, force, everywhere forc...

Force, force, everywhere force; we ourselves a mysterious force in the centre of that. "There is not a leaf rotting on the highway but has Force in it: how else could it rot?" [As used in his time, by the word force, Carlyle means energy.]

Thomas Carlyle 1193 quotes

Great men are the inspired te...

Great men are the inspired texts of that divine Book of Revelations, whereof a chapter is completed from epoch to epoch, and by some named History.

Thomas Carlyle 1193 quotes

Great men are the modelers, p...

Great men are the modelers, patterns, and in a wide sense creators, of whatsoever the general mass of men contrived to do and attain.

Thomas Carlyle 1193 quotes

To the mean eye all things ar...

To the mean eye all things are trivial, as certainly as to the jaundiced they are yellow.

Thomas Carlyle 1193 quotes

What, in the devil's name, is...

What, in the devil's name, is the use of respectability, with never so many gigs and silver spoons, if thou inwardly art the pitifulness of all men?

Thomas Carlyle 1193 quotes

History is the new poetry. ...

History is the new poetry.

Thomas Carlyle 1193 quotes

Statistics is a science which...

Statistics is a science which ought to be honourable, the basis of many most important sciences; but it is not to be carried on by steam, this science, any more than others are; a wise head is requisite for carrying it on.

Thomas Carlyle 1193 quotes

How were friendship possible?...

How were friendship possible? In mutual devotedness to the good and true; otherwise impossible, except as armed neutrality or hollow commercial league. A man, be the heavens ever praised, is sufficient for himself; yet were ten men, united in love, capable of being and of doing what ten thousand singly would fail in. Infinite is the help man can yield to man.

Thomas Carlyle 1193 quotes

Nature admits no lie. ...

Nature admits no lie.

Thomas Carlyle 1193 quotes

There are female dandies as w...

There are female dandies as well as clothes-wearing men; and the former are as objectionable as the latter.

Thomas Carlyle 1193 quotes

History is philosophy teachin...

History is philosophy teaching by experience.

Thomas Carlyle 1193 quotes

The greatest security against...

The greatest security against sin is to be shocked at its presence.

Thomas Carlyle 1193 quotes

Heroes, it would seem, exist ...

Heroes, it would seem, exist always and a certain worship of them.

Thomas Carlyle 1193 quotes

Skepticism, as I said, is not...

Skepticism, as I said, is not intellectual only; it is moral also; a chronic atrophy and disease of the whole soul. A man lives by believing something; not by debating and arguing about many things. A sad case for him when all that he can manage to believe is something he can button in his pocket, and with one or the other organ eat and digest! Lower than that he will not get.

Thomas Carlyle 1193 quotes

A very sea of thought; neithe...

A very sea of thought; neither calm nor clear, if you will, yet wherein the toughest pearl-diver may dive to his utmost depth, and return not only with sea-wreck but with true orients.

Thomas Carlyle 1193 quotes

No sooner does a great man de...

No sooner does a great man depart, and leave his character as public property, than a crowd of little men rushes towards it. There they are gathered together, blinking up to it with such vision as they have, scanning it from afar, hovering round it this way and that, each cunningly endeavoring, by all arts, to catch some reflex of it in the little mirror of himself.

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Men are to be guided only by ...

Men are to be guided only by their self-interests. Good government is a good balancing of these; and, except a keen eye and appetite for self-interest, requires no virtue in any quarter. To both parties it is emphatically a machine: to the discontented, a taxing-machine; to the contented, a machine for securing property. Its duties and its faults are not those of a father, but of an active parish-constable.

Thomas Carlyle 1193 quotes

The all importance of clothes...

The all importance of clothes has sprung up in the intellect of the dandy without effort, like an instinct of genius; he is inspired with clothes, a poet of clothes.

Thomas Carlyle 1193 quotes

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....