TCThomas Carlyle

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Thomas Carlyle

Life dates: 1795 AD — 1881 AD

Listed in the author section of Bartlett’s ninth-edition anthology, in the linked 1905 printing. Dates reflect that historical edition and may differ from modern scholarship.

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Quotations and sayings

01c. 1838 AD

All deep joy has something of awful in it.

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02c. 1838 AD

All destruction, by violent revolution or howsoever it be, is but new creation on a wider scale.

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03c. 1838 AD

All inmost things are melodious, naturally utter themselves in song.

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04c. 1838 AD

All living objects do by necessity form to themselves a skin.

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05c. 1838 AD

All men, if they work not as in the great taskmaster's eye, will work wrong.

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06c. 1838 AD

All objects are as windows through which the philosophic eye looks into infinitude.

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07c. 1838 AD

All speech, even the commonest, has something of song in it.

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08c. 1838 AD

All talent, all intellect, is in the first place moral.

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09c. 1838 AD

All that mankind has done, thought, gained, or been, it is all lying in magic preservation in the pages of books.

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10c. 1838 AD

All true men are soldiers in the same army, to do battle against the same enemy—the empire of darkness and wrong.

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11c. 1838 AD

All, were it only a withered leaf, works together with all.

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12c. 1838 AD

Always there is a black spot in our sunshine, the shadow of ourselves.

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13c. 1838 AD

A man, be the heavens praised, is sufficient for himself; yet were ten men, united in love, capable of being and doing what ten thousand singly would fail in.

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14c. 1838 AD

A man is not born the second time, any more than the first, without travail.

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15c. 1838 AD

A man is not strong who takes convulsion fits, though six men cannot hold him; only he that can walk under the heaviest weight without staggering.

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16c. 1838 AD

A man lives by believing something; not by debating and arguing about many things.

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17c. 1838 AD

A man protesting against error is on the way towards uniting himself with all men that believe in truth.

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18c. 1838 AD

A man who cannot gird himself into harness will take no weight along these highways.

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19c. 1838 AD

A man who does not know rigour cannot pity either.

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20c. 1838 AD

A man with half a volition goes backwards and forwards, and makes no way on the smoothest road.

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21c. 1838 AD

"Am I to be saved? or am I to be lost?" Certain to be lost, so long as you put that question.

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22c. 1838 AD

An irreverent knowledge is no knowledge; it may be a development of the logical or other handicraft faculty, but is no culture of the soul of a man.

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23c. 1838 AD

As a priest, or interpreter of the holy, is the noblest and highest of all men; so is a sham priest the falsest and basest.

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24c. 1838 AD

A thinking man is the worst enemy the Prince of Darkness can have.

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