--- title: "7 Gifted Quotes By Thomas Carlyle" description: "7 Gifted quotes by Thomas Carlyle. Plus more from Thomas Carlyle and more Gifted sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1fd/thomas-carlyle-207_able_o-thou-who-art-able-to-write-a-book-whic_397810.png" --- > [O thou who art able to write a Book, which once in the two centuries or oftener there is a man gifted…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-carlyle/o-thou-who-art-able-to-write-a-book-which-once-in-the-two-centuries/) [Thomas Carlyle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-carlyle/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1fd/thomas-carlyle-207_able_o-thou-who-art-able-to-write-a-book-whic_397810.png) > [The Persians are called the French of the East; we will call the Arabs Oriental Italians. A gifted noble people; a people…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-carlyle/the-persians-are-called-the-french-of-the-east-we-will-call-the-arabs/) [Thomas Carlyle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-carlyle/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/50f/thomas-carlyle-207_characteristics_the-persians-are-called-the-french-of-th_752205.png) > [Histories are as perfect as the Historian is wise, and is gifted with an eye and a soul.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-carlyle/histories-are-as-perfect-as-the-historian-is-wise-and-is-gifted-with/) [Thomas Carlyle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-carlyle/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/37f/thomas-carlyle-207_eye_histories-are-as-perfect-as-the-historia_783037.png) > [A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-carlyle/a-person-who-is-gifted-sees-the-essential-point-and-leaves-the-rest/) [Thomas Carlyle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-carlyle/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b12/thomas-carlyle-207_gifted_a-person-who-is-gifted-sees-the-essentia_866734.png) > [God gave you that gifted tongue of yours, and set it between your teeth, to make known your true meaning to us,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-carlyle/god-gave-you-that-gifted-tongue-of-yours-and-set-it-between-your/) [Thomas Carlyle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-carlyle/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2e4/thomas-carlyle-207_bells_god-gave-you-that-gifted-tongue-of-yours_961820.png) > [O thou who art able to write a book which once in the two centuries or oftener there is a man gifted…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-carlyle/o-thou-who-art-able-to-write-a-book-which-once-in-the-two-centuries-2/) [Thomas Carlyle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-carlyle/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6b6/thomas-carlyle-207_able_o-thou-who-art-able-to-write-a-book-whic_2195563.png) > [Taste, if it mean anything but a paltry connoisseurship, must mean a general susceptibility to truth and nobleness, a sense to discern,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-carlyle/taste-if-it-mean-anything-but-a-paltry-connoisseurship-must-mean-a/) [Thomas Carlyle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-carlyle/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/350/thomas-carlyle-207_admiration_taste-if-it-mean-anything-but-a-paltry-c_2911994.jpg) ## Other authors on Gifted ## More by Thomas Carlyle > [O thou that pinest in the imprisonment of the Actual, and criest bitterly to the gods for a kingdom wherein to rule and create,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-carlyle/o-thou-that-pinest-in-the-imprisonment-of-the-actual-and-criest/) [Thomas Carlyle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-carlyle/) > [Whose school-hours are all the days and nights of our existence.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-carlyle/whose-school-hours-are-all-the-days-and-nights-of-our-existence/) [Thomas Carlyle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-carlyle/) > [No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-carlyle/no-sadder-proof-can-be-given-by-a-man-of-his-own-littleness-than/) [Thomas Carlyle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-carlyle/) > [Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such: it is an accident, not a property, of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-carlyle/fame-we-may-understand-is-no-sure-test-of-merit-but-only-a/) [Thomas Carlyle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-carlyle/) > [The sincere alone can recognize sincerity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-carlyle/the-sincere-alone-can-recognize-sincerity/) [Thomas Carlyle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-carlyle/) > [Be a pattern to others, and then all will go well; for as a whole city is affected by the licentious passions and vices…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-carlyle/be-a-pattern-to-others-and-then-all-will-go-well-for-as-a-whole-city/) [Thomas Carlyle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-carlyle/) > [The glory of a workman, still more of a master workman, that he does his work well, ought to be his most precious possession;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-carlyle/the-glory-of-a-workman-still-more-of-a-master-workman-that-he-does/) [Thomas Carlyle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-carlyle/) > [All human things do require to have an ideal in them; to have some soul in them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-carlyle/all-human-things-do-require-to-have-an-ideal-in-them-to-have-some/) [Thomas Carlyle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-carlyle/) > [Insurrection, never so necessary, is a most sad necessity; and governors who wait for that to instruct them are surely getting into the fatalest…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-carlyle/insurrection-never-so-necessary-is-a-most-sad-necessity-and-governors/) [Thomas Carlyle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-carlyle/) > [What is philosophy but a continual battle against custom?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-carlyle/what-is-philosophy-but-a-continual-battle-against-custom/) [Thomas Carlyle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-carlyle/) > [Let Time and Chance combine, combine! Let Time and Chance combine! The fairest love from heaven above, That love of yours was mine, My…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-carlyle/let-time-and-chance-combine-combine-let-time-and-chance-combine-the/) [Thomas Carlyle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-carlyle/) > [Thought will not work except in silence.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-carlyle/thought-will-not-work-except-in-silence/) [Thomas Carlyle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-carlyle/) > [The public is anold woman.Let her maunderand mumble.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-carlyle/the-public-is-anold-woman-let-her-maunderand-mumble/) [Thomas Carlyle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-carlyle/) > [Does not every true man feel that he is himself made higher by doing reverence to what is really above him?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-carlyle/does-not-every-true-man-feel-that-he-is-himself-made-higher-by-doing/) [Thomas Carlyle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-carlyle/) > [The press is the fourth estate of the realm.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-carlyle/the-press-is-the-fourth-estate-of-the-realm/) [Thomas Carlyle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-carlyle/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/gifted/thomas-carlyle/#itemlist", "name": "7 Gifted Quotes By Thomas Carlyle", "numberOfItems": 7, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "O thou who art able to write a Book, which once in the two centuries or oftener there is a man gifted to do, envy not him whom they name City-builder, and inexpressibly pity him whom they name Conqueror or City-burner! 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