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Quotes by

Thomas Carlyle

We call it a Society; and go about professing openly the totalest separation, isolation. Our life is not a mutual helpfulness; but rather, cloaked under due laws-of-war, named fair competition and so forth, it is a mutual hostility. – Thomas Carlyle

All men, if they work not as in the great taskmasters eye, will work wrong, and work unhappily for themselves and for you. – Thomas Carlyle

The cut of a garment speaks of intellect and talent and the color of temperament and heart. – Thomas Carlyle

A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one. – Thomas Carlyle

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

Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species. – Thomas Carlyle

History is the distillation of rumor. – Thomas Carlyle

Stern accuracy in inquiring, bold imagination in describing, these are the cogs on which history soars or flutters and wobbles. – Thomas Carlyle

What are your historical Facts; still more your biographical? Wilt thou know a man by stringing-together beadrolls of what thou namest Facts? – Thomas Carlyle

I grow daily to honor facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing — a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil. – Thomas Carlyle

Conclusive facts are inseparable from inconclusive except by a head that already understands and knows. – Thomas Carlyle

Let each become all that he was created capable of being. – Thomas Carlyle

The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak becomes a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong. – Thomas Carlyle

The eternal stars shine out as soon as it is dark enough. – Thomas Carlyle

The archenemy is the arch stupid! – Thomas Carlyle

A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortunes inequality exhibits under this sun. – Thomas Carlyle

I dont pretend to understand the Universe – its a great deal bigger than I am. – Thomas Carlyle

Ive got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom. – Thomas Carlyle

What you see, but cant see over is as good as infinite. – Thomas Carlyle

Reform is not pleasant, but grievous no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation. – Thomas Carlyle