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Us Quotes by Thomas Carlyle
- What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection…
- Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.
- Oh, give us the man who sings at his work.
- To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes.
- As there is no danger of our becoming, any of us, Mahometans (i.e. Muslim), I mean to say all the good of him I justly…
- If Hero means sincere man, why may not every one of us be a Hero?
- Hardened round us, encasing wholly every notion we form is a wrapping of traditions, hearsay's, and mere words.
- Science has done much for us; but it is a poor science that would hide from us the great deep sacred infinitude of Nescience, on…
- There is so much data available to us, but most data won't help us succeed.
- Not our logical faculty, but our imaginative one is king over us. I might say, priest and prophet to lead us to heaven-ward, or magician…
- But the whim we have of happiness is somewhat thus. By certain valuations, and averages, of our own striking, we come upon some sort of…
- Oh, Heaven, it is mysterious, it is awful to consider that we not only carry a future Ghost within us; but are, in very deed,…
- All deep things are song. It seems somehow the very central essence of us, song; as if all the rest were but wrappages and hulls!
- Not on morality, but on cookery, let us build our stronghold: there brandishing our frying-pan, as censer, let us offer sweet incense to the Devil,…
- Give us, O give us the man who sings at his work! Be his occupation what it may, he is equal to any of those…
- Wonderful Force of Public Opinion! We must act and walk in all points as it prescribes; follow the traffic it bids us, realize the sum…
- Do not be embarrassed by your mistakes. Nothing can teach us better than our understanding of them. This is one of the best ways of…
- The meaning of song goes deep. Who in logical words can explain the effect music has on us? A kind of inarticulate, unfathomable speech, which…
- Does it ever give thee pause that men used to have a soul? Not by hearsay alone, or as a figure of speech, but as…
- Are we not Spirits, that are shaped into a body, into an Appearance; and that fade away again into air and Invisibility? Oh, Heaven, it…
- Innumerable are the illusions and legerdemain-tricks of custom: but of all of these, perhaps the cleverest is her knack of persuading us that the miraculous,…
- We were wise indeed, could we discern truly the signs of our own time; and by knowledge of its wants and advantages, wisely adjust our…
- The errors of a wise man are literally more instructive than the truths of a fool. The wise man travels in lofty, far-seeing regions; the…
- We do everything by custom, even believe by it; our very axioms, let us boast of free-thinking as we may, are oftenest simply such beliefs…
- God gave you that gifted tongue of yours, and set it between your teeth, to make known your true meaning to us, not to be…
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