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If Hero means sincere man, why may not every one of us be a Hero?
Topic: Heroes
Source: Heroes and Hero-Worship (lecture IV)
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Hero-worship exists, has existed, and will forever exist,
universally among Mankind.
Topic: Heroes
Source: Sartor Resartus--Organic Filaments
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A man must indeed be a hero to appear such in the eyes of his
valet.
[Fr., Il faut etre bien heros pour l'etre aux yeux de son
valet-de-chambre.]
Topic: Heroes
Source: Sartor Resartus--Organic Filaments
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All history is a Bible--a thing stated in words by me more than
once.
Topic: History
Source: quoted in Froude's "Early Life of Carlyle"
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Histories are as perfect as the Historian is wise, and is gifted
with an eye and a soul.
Topic: History
Source: Cromwell's Letter and Speeches--Introduction (ch. I)
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History is the essence of innumerable Biographies.
Topic: History
Source: Essays--On History
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History, as it lies at the root of all science, is also the first
distinct product of man's spiritual nature; his earliest
expression of what can be called Thought.
Topic: History
Source: Essays--On History
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In a certain sense all men are historians.
Topic: History
Source: Essays--On History
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History, a distillation of rumor.
Topic: History
Source: French Revolution (pt. I, bk. VII, ch. V)
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All history . . . is an inarticulate Bible.
Topic: History
Source: Latter Day Pamphlets (405)
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Happy the People whose Annals are blank in History-Books.
Topic: History
Source: Life of Frederick the Great (bk. XVI, ch. I)
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History: A distillation of rumor.
Topic: History
Source: None
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My whinstone house my castle is,
I have my own four walls.
Topic: Home
Source: My Own Four Walls
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Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic
genius.
Topic: Humor
Source: Essays-Schiller
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In the end, everything is a gag.
Topic: Humor
Source: Essays-Schiller
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Sometimes when reading Goethe I have the paralyzing suspicion
that he is trying to be funny.
Topic: Humor
Source: Essays-Schiller
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Humour has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.
Topic: Humor
Source: None
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The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water
flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.
Topic: Influence
Source: Essays--Varnhagen von Ense's Memoirs
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Be a pattern to others, and then all will go well; for as a whole
city is affected by the licentious passions and vices of great
men, so it is likewise reformed by their moderation.
Topic: Influence
Source: Essays--Varnhagen von Ense's Memoirs
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For the eye of the intellect "sees in all objects what it brought
with it the means of seeing."
- Thomas Carlyle,
Topic: Intellect
Source: Varnhagen Von Ense's Memoirs--London and Westminster Review
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We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of
course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
Topic: Intellect
Source: Varnhagen Von Ense's Memoirs--London and Westminster Review
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A Fourth Estate, of Able Editors, springs up.
Topic: Journalism
Source: French Revolution (pt. I, bk. VI, ch. 5)
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Great is journalism. Is not every able editor a ruler of the
world, being the persuader of it?
Topic: Journalism
Source: French Revolution (pt. II, bk. 1, ch. 4)
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Burke said there were Three Estates in Parliament; but, in the
Reporter's gallery yonder, there sat a fourth estate more
important far than they all.
Topic: Journalism
Source: Heroes and Hero-Worship (lecture V)
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A parliament speaking through reporters to Buncombe and the
Twenty-seven millions, mostly fools.
Topic: Journalism
Source: Latter Day Pamphlets (no. VI, Parliaments)
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Woe to him, . . . who has no court of appeal against the world's
judgment.
Topic: Judgment
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?
Topic: Knowledge
Source: Essays (On History)
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For love is ever the beginning of Knowledge, as fire is of light.
Topic: Knowledge
Source: Essays--Death of Goethe
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And yet without labour there were no ease, no rest, so much as
conceivable.
Topic: Labor
Source: Essays--Characteristics
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Even in the meanest sorts of labor, the whole soul of a man is composed into a kind of real harmony the instant he sets himself to work.
Topic: Labor
Source: None
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The coldest word was once a glowing new metaphor.
Topic: Language
Source: None
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How much lies in Laughter: the cipher-key, wherewith we decipher
the whole man.
Topic: Laughter
Source: Sartor Resartus (bk. I, ch. IV)
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no man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.
Topic: Laughter
Source: None
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A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy.
Topic: Laughter
Source: None
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The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.
Topic: Life
Source: None
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Literature is the thought of thinking Souls.
Topic: Literature
Source: Essays--Memoirs of the Life of Scott
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Literary Men are . . . a perpetual priesthood.
Topic: Literature
Source: Essays--State of German Literature
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Love is not altogether a delerium, yet it has many points in common therewith.
Topic: Love
Source: None
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Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.
Topic: Minority
Source: None
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Money, which is of very uncertain value, and sometimes has no
value at all and even less.
Topic: Money
Source: Frederick the Great (bk. IV, ch. III)
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What gained we, little moth? Thy ashes,
Thy one brief parting pang may show:
And withering thoughts for soul that dashes,
From deep to deep, are but a death more slow.
Topic: Moths
Source: Tragedy of the Night Moth (st. 14)
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Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
Topic: Music
Source: None
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Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness; on the confines of the two everlasting empires, necessity and free will.
Topic: Necessity
Source: None
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A witty statesman said, you might prove anything by figures.
Topic: Numbers
Source: Chartism
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Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.
Topic: Opinions
Source: None
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The Orator persuades and carries all with him, he knows not how;
the Rhetorician can prove that he ought to have persuaded and
carried all with him.
Topic: Oratory
Source: Essays--Characteristics
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The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man; whatsoever he believes, he believes it for himself, not for another.
Topic: Originality
Source: None
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The merit of originality is not novelty, it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man; he believes for himself, not for another.
Topic: Originality
Source: None
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If they could forget for a moment the correggiosity of Correggio
and the learned babble of the sale-room and varnishing
Auctioneer.
Topic: Painting
Source: Frederick the Great (bk. IV, ch. III)
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The Present is the living sum-total of the whole Past.
Topic: Past
Source: Essays--Characteristics
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