Thomas Carlyle Quotes

The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity.
The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.
The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.
The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.
The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall.
The spiritual is the parent of the practical.
The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.
The true university of these days is a collection of books.
The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.
The world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was.
There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.
There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.
This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.
Thought is the parent of the deed.
Thought once awakened does not again slumber; unfolds itself into a System of Thought; grows, in man after man, generation after generation, - till its full stature is reached, and such System of Thought can grow no farther, but must give place to another.
To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.
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.
True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.
Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.
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Thomas Carlyle
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Philosopher
BirthDate
04 December, 1795
DeathDate
05 February, 1881
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Scotland
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