Thomas Carlyle Quotes

• Hope ushers in a Revolution—as earthquakes are preceded by bright weather.

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• The public is an old woman. Let her maunder and mumble.

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• How great a Possibility, how small a realized Result.

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• Friends! trust not the heart of that man for whom Old Clothes are not venerable.

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• Be no longer a chaos, but a world, or even worldkin. Produce! Produce! Were it but the pitifullest infinitesimal fraction of a product, produce it in God’s name! ‘Tis the utmost thou hast in thee: out with it, then.

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• Most true it is, as a wise man teaches us, that ‘doubt of any sort cannot be removed except by Action. ’On which ground, too, let him who gropes painfully in darkness or in uncertain light, and prays vehemently that the dawn may ripen into day, lay this other precept well to heart, which to me was of invaluable service: ‘Do the Duty which lies nearest thee’, which thou knowest to be a Duty! Thy second duty will already have become clearer.

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• The everlasting No.

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• The end of man is an action and not a thought, though it were the noblest.

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• Language is called the garment of thought: however, it should rather be, language is the flesh-garment, the body, of thought.

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• Be not the slave of words.

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• Man’s earthly interests, ‘are all hooked and buttoned together, and held up, by Clothes.’

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• Whoso has sixpence is sovereign (to the length of sixpence) over all men; commands cooks to feed him, philosophers to teach him, kings to mount guard over him,—to the length of sixpence.

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• Man is a tool-using animal… Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.

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• He who first shortened the labour 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.

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• We have a faith in the imperishable dignity of man; in the high vocation to which, throughout this his earthly history, he has been appointed.

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• Philosophers…stand among us not to do, nor to create anything, but as a sort of Logic-mill to grind out the true causes and effects of all that is done and created.

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• We are Giants in physical power: in a deeper than metaphorical sense, we are Titans, that strive, by heaping mountain on mountain, to conquer Heaven also.

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• By our skill in Mechanism, it has come to pass, that in the management of external things we excel all other ages; while in whatever respects the pure mortal nature, in true dignity of soul and character, we are perhaps inferior to most civilised ages.

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• Men are grown mechanical in head and in the heart, as well as in the hand. They have lost faith in individual endeavour, and in natural force of any kind.

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• Wealth has more and more increased, and at the same time gathered itself more and more into masses, strangely altering the old relations, and increasing the distance between the rich and the poor.

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Thomas Carlyle (219)

Birth:	4th December, 1795
Death:	5th February, 1881
Nationality:	Scottish
Profession:	Essayist, Historian, Satirist, Teacher, Writer

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