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Thomas Carlyle

(1795–1881) Novelist Kingdom of Great Britain

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Thomas Carlyle was a novelist from the Kingdom of Great Britain, best known for Works of Thomas Carlyle Vol. 23.

Quick Facts About Thomas Carlyle

Born: December 4, 1795
Died: February 5, 1881
Nationality: Kingdom of Great Britain
Profession: Novelist
Notable works: Works of Thomas Carlyle Vol. 23
Known for: Occasional Discourse on the Negro Question, Inaugural Address at Edinburgh University, On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and The Heroic in History, Past and Present, History of Friedrich II of Prussia
Spouse: Jane Welsh Carlyle

About Thomas Carlyle

Thomas Carlyle was a Scottish essayist, historian and philosopher. Known as the "sage of Chelsea", his writings strongly influenced the intellectual and artistic culture of the Victorian era.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Awards & Honors

Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts order Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Pour le Mérite

Quotes by Thomas Carlyle · Page 7

Are not our greatest men as good as lost? The men that walk daily among us, warming us, feeding us, walk shrouded…

Darkness

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Cash-payment is not the sole nexus of man with man.

Cash

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“A Dandy is a clothes-wearing Man, a Man whose trade, office and existence consists in the wearing of clothes.”

Clothes

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A man perfects himself by working.

Inspirational

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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.

Believe

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The greatest mistake is to imagine that we never err.

Failure

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He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.

Health

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

Common

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Speech that leads not to action, still more that hinders it, is a nuisance on the earth.

Action

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Government is emphatically a machine: to the discontented a taxing machine, to the contented a machine for securing property.

Computers

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The Present is the living sum-total of the whole Past.

Funny

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Midas-eared Mammonism, double-barrelled Dilettantism, and their thousand adjuncts and corollaries, are not the Law by which God Almighty has appointed this His…

Almighty

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Man is emphatically a proselytizing creature.

Creatures

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To say that we have a clear conscience is to utter a solecism; had we never sinned we should have had no…

Clear

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Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the…

Action

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Democracy will itself accomplish the salutary universal change from delusive to real, and make a new blessed world of us by and…

Accomplish

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Poetry is the attempt which man makes to render his existence harmonious.

Existence

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Our works are the mirror wherein the spirit first sees its natural lineaments. Hence, too, the folly of that impossible precept, Know…

Firsts

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Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can.

Inspirational

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Experience takes dreadfully high school-wages, but he teaches like no other.

Education

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Of a truth, men are mystically united: a mystic bond of brotherhood makes all men one.

Brotherhood

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Not our Logical, Mensurative faculty, but our Imaginative one is King over us; I might say, Priest and Prophet to lead us…

Creativity

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How great a Possibility, how small a realized Result.

Possibility

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It is the feeling of injustice that is insupportable to all men.

Feelings

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

Facts

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Thomas Carlyle by topic

Men (224) Inspirational (95) Love (57) Life (57) World (53) Time (52) Books (41) History (40) Soul (39) Ifs (37) Work (32) Nature (32) Truth (29) Lying (29) Kind (29)