Century Quotes by Thomas Carlyle

9 Century quotes by Thomas Carlyle

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Thomas Carlyle’s observations on the century are distilled into nine concise statements. The brief set offers a clear, thoughtful glimpse of his historical commentary.

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Might and right do differ frightfully from hour to hour, but then centuries to try it in, they are found to be…

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At the bottom there is no perfect history; there is none such conceivable. All past centuries have rotted down, and gone confusedly…

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To the wisest man, wide as is his vision. Nature remains of quite infinite depth, of quite infinite expansion and all experience…

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O thou who art able to write a book which once in the two centuries or oftener there is a man gifted…

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I think Scandinavian Paganism, to us here, is more interesting than any other. It is, for one thing, the latest; it continued…

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Heroes have gone out; quacks have come in; the reign of quacks has not ended with the nineteenth century. The sceptre is…

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These Arabs, the man Mahomet, and that one century, - is it not as if a spark had fallen, one spark, on…

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Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment…

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O thou who art able to write a Book, which once in the two centuries or oftener there is a man gifted…

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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,…

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

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

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

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The sincere alone can recognize sincerity.

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

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

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

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

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What is philosophy but a continual battle against custom?

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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 mine, My…

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Thought will not work except in silence.

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The public is anold woman.Let her maunderand mumble.

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

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The press is the fourth estate of the realm.

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