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Spirituality Quotes by Thomas Carlyle

25 Spirituality quotes by Thomas Carlyle

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When you wander into Carlyle’s musings on the unseen, you’ll find a blend of moral vigor and poetic insight that feels both historic and oddly current. These 25 snippets capture his restless quest for meaning, inviting you to pause and consider the deeper currents that shape our lives.

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In books lies the soul fo the whole past time.

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All true work is sacred.

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The great soul of this world is just.

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In books lies the soul of the whole past time.

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Every man has a coward and hero in his soul.

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Literature is the thought of thinking souls.

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The spiritual is the parent of the practical.

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Prayer is and remains always a native and deepest impulse of the soul of man.

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The soul gives unity to what it looks at with love.

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Intellect is the soul of man, the only immortal part of him.

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The mystery of a person, indeed, is ever divine to him that has a sense for the godlike.

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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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A good book is the purest essence of a human soul.

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Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragements, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong…

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

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No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.

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Even in the meanest sorts of labor, the whole soul of a man is composed into a kind of real harmony the…

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In books lies the soul of the whole Past Time; the articulate audible voice of the Past, when the body and material…

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Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness; on the confines of the two everlasting empires,…

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Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacle s, discouragement s, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes…

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Skepticism . . . is not intellectual only it is moral also, a chronic atrophy and disease of the whole soul.

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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness. He has a work, a Life-purpose... Get your…

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Skepticism, as I said, is not intellectual only; it is moral also; a chronic atrophy and disease of the whole soul. A…

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Great souls are always loyally submissive, reverent to what is over them: only small mean souls are otherwise.

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To know, to get into the truth of anything, is ever a mystic art, of which the best logic's can but babble…

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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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