“Every poet... finds himself born in the midst of prose. He has to struggle from the littleness and obstruction of an actual… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Painful for a person is rebellious independence, only in loving companionship with his associates does a person feel safe: Only in reverently… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Freedom is the one purport, wisely aimed at, or unwisely, of all man's struggles, toilings and sufferings, in this earth. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Every poet, be his outward lot what it may, finds himself born in the midst of prose; h e has to struggle… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
“The memory of that first state of Freedom and paradisiac Unconsciousness has faded away into an ideal poetic dream. We stand here… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Every human being has a right to hear what other wise human beings have spoken to him. It is one of the… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
“You may take my purse; but I cannot have my moral Self annihilated. The purse is any Highwayman's who might meet me… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
I came hither [Craigenputtoch] solely with the design to simplify my way of life and to secure the independence through which I… — 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 Image
No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
All human things do require to have an ideal in them; to have some soul in them. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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