There is no heroic poem in the world but is at bottom a biography, the life of a man. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
I know so little about any history. How little do I know even about the history of myself. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Parties on the back of Parties, at war with the world and with each other. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Histories are as perfect as the Historian is wise, and is gifted with an eye and a soul. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
It is part of my creed that the only poetry is history, could we tell it right. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Rich as we are in biography, a well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one; and there are certainly many… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
For, strictly considered, what is all Knowledge too but recorded Experience, and a product of History; of which, therefore, Reasoning and Belief,… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Also, what mountains of dead ashes, wreck and burnt bones, does assiduous pedantry dig up from the past time and name it… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
History, as it lies at the root of all science, is also the first distinct product of man's spiritual nature, his earliest… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
At the bottom there is no perfect history; there is none such conceivable. All past centuries have rotted down, and gone confusedly… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Great men are the inspired texts of that divine Book of Revelations, whereof a chapter is completed from epoch to epoch, and… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
What is all Knowledge too but recorded Experience, and a product of History; of which, therefore, Reasoning and Belief, no less than… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The greatest of all heroes is One--whom we do not name here! Let sacred silence meditate that sacred matter; you will find… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
“For there was need once more of a Divine Revelation to the torpid frivolous children of men, if they were not to… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
What is all knowledge except recorded experience, and a product of history? — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Armed Soldier, terrible as Death, relentless as Doom; doing God's judgement on the Enemies of God. It is a phenomenon not of… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Stern accuracy in inquiring, bold imagination in describing, these are the cogs on which history soars or flutters and wobbles. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Universal history, the history of what man has accomplished in this world, is at bottom the History of the Great Men who… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
“History of the world is the biography of the great man. And I said: The great man always act like a thunder.… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
“A Dandy is a clothes-wearing Man, a Man whose trade, office and existence consists in the wearing of clothes.” — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
O thou that pinest in the imprisonment of the Actual, and criest bitterly to the gods for a kingdom wherein to rule and create,… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share
No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share
Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such: it is an accident, not a property, of… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share
Be a pattern to others, and then all will go well; for as a whole city is affected by the licentious passions and vices… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share
The glory of a workman, still more of a master workman, that he does his work well, ought to be his most precious possession;… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share
All human things do require to have an ideal in them; to have some soul in them. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share
Insurrection, never so necessary, is a most sad necessity; and governors who wait for that to instruct them are surely getting into the fatalest… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share
Let Time and Chance combine, combine! Let Time and Chance combine! The fairest love from heaven above, That love of yours was mine, My… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share
Does not every true man feel that he is himself made higher by doing reverence to what is really above him? — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share
