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Love Quotes by Thomas Carlyle

57 Love quotes by Thomas Carlyle

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Thomas Carlyle writes about love as something that can grow when time and chance meet. He reminds us to hold dear the people we have close and not wait for them to drift away. He also says that working hard and improving yourself is a way to perfect love.

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Rest is for the dead.

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All comes out even at the end of the day.

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The actual well seen is ideal.

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History is a great dust heap.

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A man perfects himself by working.

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The devil has his elect.

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History: A distillation of rumor.

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Song is the heroics of speech.

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There is precious instruction to be got by finding we were wrong.

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Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

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Properly speaking, all true work is religion.

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A thought once awakened does not again slumber.

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There is something in man which your science cannot satisfy.

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Feel it in thy heart and then say whether it is of God!

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The Ideal is in thyself, the impediments too is in thyself.

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Poetry, therefore, we will call Musical Thought.

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There is in man a higher than love of happiness; he can do without happiness, and instead thereof find blessedness.

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

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Love is not altogether a Delirium," says he elsewhere; "yet has it many points in common therewith.

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All human souls, never so bedarkened, love light; light once kindled spreads till all is luminous.

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Love not pleasure; love God. This is the Everlasting Yea, wherein all contradiction is solved ...

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It is through symbols that man consciously or unconsciously lives, works and has his being.

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Who is it that loves me and will love me forever with an affection which no chance, no misery, no crime of…

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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…

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Let Time and Chance combine, combine! Let Time and Chance combine! The fairest love from heaven above, That love of yours was…

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True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues…

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Cherish what is dearest while you have it near you, and wait not till it is far away. Blind and deaf that…

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Taste, if it mean anything but a paltry connoisseurship, must mean a general susceptibility to truth and nobleness, a sense to discern,…

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For the superior morality, of which we hear so much, we too would desire to be thankful: at the same time, it…

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How were friendship possible? In mutual devotedness to the good and true; otherwise impossible, except as armed neutrality or hollow commercial league.…

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Variety is the condition of harmony.

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History is the distillation of rumour.

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Affectation is the product of falsehood.

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Nature admits no lie.

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History is the new poetry.

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My books are friends that never fail me.

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A man's perfection is his work.

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A fair day's wages for a fair day's work.

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Love not Pleasure; love God.

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Love is the only game that is not called on account of darkness.

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O thou that pinest in the imprisonment of the Actual, and criest bitterly to the gods for a kingdom wherein to rule and create,…

Whose school-hours are all the days and nights of our existence.

No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.

Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such: it is an accident, not a property, of…

The sincere alone can recognize sincerity.

Be a pattern to others, and then all will go well; for as a whole city is affected by the licentious passions and vices…

The glory of a workman, still more of a master workman, that he does his work well, ought to be his most precious possession;…

All human things do require to have an ideal in them; to have some soul in them.

Insurrection, never so necessary, is a most sad necessity; and governors who wait for that to instruct them are surely getting into the fatalest…

What is philosophy but a continual battle against custom?

Let Time and Chance combine, combine! Let Time and Chance combine! The fairest love from heaven above, That love of yours was mine, My…

Thought will not work except in silence.

The public is anold woman.Let her maunderand mumble.

Does not every true man feel that he is himself made higher by doing reverence to what is really above him?

The press is the fourth estate of the realm.