| 180 Famous Quotes by Thomas Carlyle
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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.”
Journalism Quotes 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.”
Journalism Quotes Source: Latter Day Pamphlets (no. VI, Parliaments)
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“Teaching school is but another word for sure and not very slow
destruction.”
Teaching Quotes Source: "In Mathematical Circles" by H. Eves
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“He is wise who can instruct us and assist us in the business of
virtuous living.”
Teaching Quotes Source: Essays--Schiller
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“Midas-eared Mammonism, double-barrelled Dilettantism, and their
thousand adjuncts and corollaries, are not the Law by which God
Almighty has appointed this His universe to go.”
Wealth Quotes Source: Past and Present (ch. VI)
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“Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but
what we do.”
Gain Quotes Source: Essays--Goethe's Helena
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“Money, which is of very uncertain value, and sometimes has no
value at all and even less.”
Money Quotes Source: Frederick the Great (bk. IV, ch. III)
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“Man always worships something; always he sees the Infinite
shadowed forth in something finite; and indeed can and must so
see it in any finite thing, once tempt him well to fix his eyes
thereon.”
Worship Quotes Source: Essays--Goethe's Works
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“We have not the love of greatness, but the love of the love of
greatness.”
Greatness Quotes Source: Essays--Characteristics (vol. III)
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“Man's Unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his Greatness; it is
because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning
he cannot quite bury under the Finite.”
Greatness Quotes Source: Sartor Resartus--The Everlasting Yea (bk. II, ch. IX)
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“All history is a Bible--a thing stated in words by me more than
once.”
History Quotes 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.”
History Quotes Source: Cromwell's Letter and Speeches--Introduction (ch. I)
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“History is the essence of innumerable Biographies.”
History Quotes 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.”
History Quotes Source: Essays--On History
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“In a certain sense all men are historians.”
History Quotes Source: Essays--On History
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“History, a distillation of rumor.”
History Quotes Source: French Revolution (pt. I, bk. VII, ch. V)
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“All history . . . is an inarticulate Bible.”
History Quotes Source: Latter Day Pamphlets (405)
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“Happy the People whose Annals are blank in History-Books.”
History Quotes Source: Life of Frederick the Great (bk. XVI, ch. I)
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“Experience is the best of schoolmasters, only the school-fees are
heavy.”
Students Quotes Source: Miscellaneous Essays (I, 137), (ed. 1888)
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“His religion at best is an anxious wish,--like that of Rabelais,
a great Perhaps.”
Religion Quotes Source: Essays--Burns
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“On the whole we must repeat the often repeated saying, that it is
unworthy a religious man to view an irreligious one either with
alarm or aversion; or with any other feeling than regret, and
hope, and brotherly commiseration.”
Religion Quotes Source: Essays--Voltaire
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“Of a truth, men are mystically united: a mystic bond of
brotherhood makes all men one.”
Sympathy Quotes Source: Essays--Goethe's Works
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“Every noble crown is, and on Earth will forever be, a crown of
thorns.”
Royalty Quotes Source: Past and Present (bk. III, ch. VIII)
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“I shall be an autocrat: that's my trade. And the good Lord will
forgive me: that's his.
[Fr., Moi, je serai autocrate: c'est mon metier. Et le bon Dieu
me pardonnnera: c'est son metier.]”
Royalty Quotes Source: Past and Present (bk. III, ch. VIII)
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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.”
Oratory Quotes Source: Essays--Characteristics
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