| 180 Famous Quotes by Thomas Carlyle
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“Genius . . . means the transcendent capacity of taking trouble.”
Genius Quotes Source: Frederick the Great (bk. IV, ch. III)
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“Nay, in every epoch of the world, the great event, parent of all
others, is it not the arrival of a Thinker in the world?”
Thought Quotes Source: Heroes and Hero Worship (lecture I)
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“Thought once awakened does not again slumber.”
Thought Quotes Source: Heroes and Hero Worship (lecture I)
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“A Poet without Love were a physical and metaphysical
impossibility.”
Poets Quotes Source: Essays--Burns
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“If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated
readings deserves to be read at all.”
Reading Quotes Source: Essays--Goethe's Helena
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“We have not read an author till we have seen his object, whatever
it may be, as he saw it.”
Reading Quotes Source: Essays--Goethe's Helena
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“We are firm believers in the maxim that, for all right judgment
of any man or thing, it is useful, nay, essential, to see his
good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.”
Character Quotes Source: Essays--Goethe
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“Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and
deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve
rebelling against.”
Rebellion Quotes Source: Essays--Goethe's Works
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“He who first shortened the labor of Copyists by device of Movable
Types was disbanding hired armies and cashiering most Kings and
Senates, and creating a whole new Democratic world: he had
invented the Art of printing.”
Printing Quotes Source: Sartor Resartus (bk. I, ch. V)
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“It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind
of work he is to do in this universe.”
Work Quotes Source: Address at Edinburgh
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“Genuine Work alone, what thou workest faithfully, that is
eternal, as the Almighty Founder and World-Builder himself.”
Work Quotes Source: Past and Present (bk. II, ch. XVII)
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“All work, even cotton-spinning, is noble; work is alone noble.”
Work Quotes Source: Past and Present (bk. III, ch. IV)
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“And yet without labour there were no ease, no rest, so much as
conceivable.”
Labor Quotes Source: Essays--Characteristics
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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.”
Influence Quotes 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.”
Influence Quotes Source: Essays--Varnhagen von Ense's Memoirs
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“Worship of a hero is transcendent admiration of a great man.”
Heroes Quotes Source: Heroes and Hero-Worship (lecture I)
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“If Hero means sincere man, why may not every one of us be a Hero?”
Heroes Quotes Source: Heroes and Hero-Worship (lecture IV)
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“Hero-worship exists, has existed, and will forever exist,
universally among Mankind.”
Heroes Quotes 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.]”
Heroes Quotes Source: Sartor Resartus--Organic Filaments
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“Great is the Tailor, but not the greatest.”
Tailors Quotes Source: Essays--Goethe's Works
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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.”
Moths Quotes Source: Tragedy of the Night Moth (st. 14)
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“To-day is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our Works
and Thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue
always the same? Change, indeed, is painful; yet ever needful;
and if Memory have its force and worth, so also has Hope.”
Change Quotes Source: Essays--Characteristics
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“Youth is to all the glad reason of life; but often only by what
it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.”
Youth Quotes Source: Essays--Schiller
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“A Fourth Estate, of Able Editors, springs up.”
Journalism Quotes 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?”
Journalism Quotes Source: French Revolution (pt. II, bk. 1, ch. 4)
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