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Give us, O give us the man wh...

Give us, O give us the man who sings at his work! Be his occupation what it may, he is equal to any of those who follow the same pursuit in silent sullenness. He will do more in the same time . . . he will do it better . . . he will persevere longer. One is scarcely sensible to fatigue while he marches to music. The very stars are said to make harmony as they revolve in their spheres.

Thomas Carlyle 1193 quotes

A word spoken in season, at t...

A word spoken in season, at the right moment; is the mother of ages.

Thomas Carlyle 1193 quotes

Misery which, through long ag...

Misery which, through long ages, had no spokesman, no helper, will now be its own helper and speak for itself.

Thomas Carlyle 1193 quotes

Not only was Thebes built by ...

Not only was Thebes built by the music of an Orpheus; but without the music of some inspired Orpheus was no city ever built, no work that man glories in ever done.

Thomas Carlyle 1193 quotes

If I say that Shakespeare is ...

If I say that Shakespeare is the greatest of intellects, I have said all concerning him. But there is more in Shakespeare's intellect than we have yet seen. It is what I call an unconscious intellect; there is more virtue in it that he himself is aware of.

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O thou who art able to write ...

O thou who art able to write a Book, which once in the two centuries or oftener there is a man gifted to do, envy not him whom they name City-builder, and inexpressibly pity him whom they name Conqueror or City-burner! Thou too art a Conqueror and Victor; but of the true sort, namely over the Devil: thou too hast built what will outlast all marble and metal, and be a wonder-bringing City of the Mind, a Temple and Seminary and Prophetic Mount, whereto all kindreds of the Earth will pilgrim.

Thomas Carlyle 1193 quotes

The Bible is the truest utter...

The Bible is the truest utterance that ever came by alphabetic letters from the soul of man, through which, as through a window divinely opened, all men can look into the stillness of eternity, and discern in glimpses their far-distant, long-forgotten home.

Thomas Carlyle 1193 quotes

Metaphysics is the attempt of...

Metaphysics is the attempt of the mind to rise above the mind.

Thomas Carlyle 1193 quotes

May blessings be upon the hea...

May blessings be upon the head of Cadmus, the Phoenicians, or whoever it was that invented books.

Thomas Carlyle 1193 quotes

Does it ever give thee pause ...

Does it ever give thee pause that men used to have a soul? Not by hearsay alone, or as a figure of speech, but as a thruth that they knew and acted upon. Verily it was another world then, but yet it is a pity we have lost the tidings of our souls. We shall have to go in search of them again or worse in all ways shall befall us.

Thomas Carlyle 1193 quotes

Skepticism means, not intelle...

Skepticism means, not intellectual doubt alone, but moral doubt.

Thomas Carlyle 1193 quotes

persons, with big wigs many o...

persons, with big wigs many of them and austere aspect, whom I take to be Professors of the Dismal Science… Coining “Dismal Science” as a nickname for Political Economy

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With union grounded on falseh...

With union grounded on falsehood and ordering us to speak and act lies, we will not have anything to do. Peace? A brutal lethargy is peaceable; the noisome is peaceable. We hope for a living peace, not a dead one!

Thomas Carlyle 1193 quotes

O Heaven, it is mysterious, i...

O Heaven, it is mysterious, it is awful to consider that we not only carry each a future Ghost within him; but are, in very deed, Ghosts!

Thomas Carlyle 1193 quotes

He who talks much about virtu...

He who talks much about virtue in the abstract, begins to be suspected; it is shrewdly guessed that where there is great preaching there will be little almsgiving.

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Every man is my superior in t...

Every man is my superior in that I may learn from him.

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If those gentlemen would let ...

If those gentlemen would let me alone I should be much obliged to them. I would say, as Shakespeare would say... Sweet Friend, for Jesus sake forbear.

Thomas Carlyle 1193 quotes

Thou fool! Nature alone is an...

Thou fool! Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom; that idle crag thou sittest on is six thousand years of age.

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A fundamental mistake to call...

A fundamental mistake to call vehemence and rigidity strength! A man is not strong who takes convulsion-fits; though six men cannot hold him then. He that can walk under the heaviest weight without staggering, he is the strong man . . . A man who cannot hold his peace, till the time come for speaking and acting, is no right man.

Thomas Carlyle 1193 quotes

Learn to be good readers, whi...

Learn to be good readers, which is perhaps a more difficult thing than you imagine. Learn to be discriminative in your reading; to read faithfully, and with your best attention, all kinds of things which you have a real interest in,--a real, not an imaginary,--and which you find to be really fit for what you are engaged in.

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