| 180 Famous Quotes by Thomas Carlyle
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“High Air-castles are cunningly built of Words, the Words well
bedded also in good Logic-mortar; wherein, however, no Knowledge
will come to lodge.”
Words Quotes Source: Sartor Resartus (bk. I, ch. VIII)
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“Speak not at all, in any wise, till you have somewhat to speak;
care not for the reward of your speaking, but simply and with
undivided mind for the truth of your speaking.”
Speech Quotes Source: Essays--Biography
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“Woe to him, . . . who has no court of appeal against the world's
judgment.”
Judgment Quotes Source: Essays--Mirabeau
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“What is all Knowledge too but recorded Experience, and a product
of History; of which, therefore, Reasoning and Belief, no less
than Action and Passion, are essential materials?”
Knowledge Quotes Source: Essays (On History)
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“For love is ever the beginning of Knowledge, as fire is of light.”
Knowledge Quotes Source: Essays--Death of Goethe
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“In every object there is inexhaustible meaning; the eye sees in
it what the eye brings means of seeing.”
Eyes Quotes Source: Hist. of the French Revolution (vol. I, p. 5), (People's ed.)
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“Poetry, therefore, we will call Musical Thought.”
Poetry Quotes Source: Heroes and Hero Worship (3)
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“For there is no heroic poem in the world but is at bottom a
biography, the life of a man; also, it may be said, there is no
life of a man, faithfully recorded, but is a heroic poem of its
sort, rhymed or unrhymed.”
Poetry Quotes Source: Sir Walter Scott--London and Westminster Review
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“Providence has given to the French the empire of the land, to the
English that of the sea, to the Germans that of--the air!”
Possession Quotes Source: Essays--Richter
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“Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a
probability of such: it is an accident, not a property of a man.”
Fame Quotes Source: Essay--Goethe
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“Scarcely two hundred years back can Fame recollect articulately
at all; and there she but maunders and mumbles.”
Fame Quotes Source: Past and Present (ch. XVII)
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“When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way, you
will command the attention of the world.”
Fame Quotes Source: Past and Present (ch. XVII)
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“After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument
than why I have one.”
Fame Quotes Source: Past and Present (ch. XVII)
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“No good Book, or good thing of any sort, shows its best face at
first.”
Goodness Quotes Source: Essays--Novalis
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“Speech is great; but silence is greater.”
Silence Quotes Source: Essays--Characteristics of Shakespeare
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“Under all speech that is good for anything three lies a silence
that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow
as Time.”
Silence Quotes Source: Essays--Memoir of the Life of Scott
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“Silence is more eloquent than words.”
Silence Quotes Source: Heroes and Hero Worship (lecture II)
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“Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves
together; that at length they may emerge, full-formed and
majestic, into the daylight of Life, which they are thenceforth
to rule.”
Silence Quotes Source: Sartor Resartus (bk. III, ch. III)
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“The Present is the living sum-total of the whole Past.”
Past Quotes Source: Essays--Characteristics
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“Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light
and another of darkness; on the confines of two everlasting
hostile empires, Necessity and Freewill.”
Soul Quotes Source: Essays--Goethe's Works
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“Our grandly business undoubtedly is, not to see what lies dimly
at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.”
Action Quotes Source: Essays--Signs of the Times
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“The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with
new.”
Action Quotes Source: Essays--Signs of the Times
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“Providence has given to the French the empire of the land, to the
English that of the sea, to the Germans that of--the air!”
England Quotes Source: Essays--Richter
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“A certain man has called us, "of all peoples the wisest in
action," but he added, "the stupidest in speech."”
England Quotes Source: The Nigger Question
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“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.”
Shakespeare Quotes Source: Essays--Characteristics of Shakespeare
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