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I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.
- Thomas Carlyle
#Daily
#Devil
#God
#Great
#Grow
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.
- Thomas Carlyle
#Generation
#Grow
#Man
#Once
#Place
Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct.
- Thomas Carlyle
#Conduct
#Conviction
#Never
#Worthless
Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.
- Thomas Carlyle
#Been
#Finest
#Genius
#Humor
#Perfection
Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.
- Thomas Carlyle
#Being
#Human
#Laughter
#Reason
#Very
No ghost was every seen by two pair of eyes.
- Thomas Carlyle
#Every
#Eyes
#Pair
#Seen
#Two
Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.
- Thomas Carlyle
#April
#Come
#Long
#Summer
#Winter
When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent.
- Thomas Carlyle
#Behavior
#Intelligent
#Life
#New
#Turns
I don't like to talk much with people who always agree with me. It is amusing to coquette with an echo for a little while, but one soon tires of it.
- Thomas Carlyle
#Agree
#Always
#Me
#People
#Talk
There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.
- Thomas Carlyle
#Discovery
#Great
#Literature
#Men
#Still
Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than gracefully insists on its own rights.
- Thomas Carlyle
#Good
#High
#Others
#Own
#Rights
No violent extreme endures.
- Thomas Carlyle
#Endures
#Extreme
#Violent
Happy the people whose annals are vacant.
- Thomas Carlyle
#Happy
#People
#Vacant
#Whose
Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
- Thomas Carlyle
#Action
#Better
#End
#Kind
#Talk
Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.
- Thomas Carlyle
#Deserve
#Men
#Never
#Rebel
#Time
Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.
- Thomas Carlyle
#Imagination
#Matter
#Poor
#Understanding
Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong.
- Thomas Carlyle
#Feeling
#Must
#Science
#Something
#Wrong
Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with.
- Thomas Carlyle
#Constantly
#Originality
#Quarrel
#Thing
Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.
- Thomas Carlyle
#Die
#Man
#Nothing
#Past
#Truth
The cut of a garment speaks of intellect and talent and the color of temperament and heart.
- Thomas Carlyle
#Color
#Cut
#Heart
#Intellect
#Talent
Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.
- Thomas Carlyle
#Day
#Death
#Justice
#Life
#Men
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.
- Thomas Carlyle
#Eyes
#God
#Grass
#Through
#Will
Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope; this world of his is emphatically the place of hope.
- Thomas Carlyle
#He
#Hope
#Man
#Place
#World
A man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind.
- Thomas Carlyle
#Blessing
#Fortune
#Man
#Mind
#Unseen
If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.
- Thomas Carlyle
#Better
#Man
#Men
#Nothing
#Wish
Woe to him that claims obedience when it is not due; woe to him that refuses it when it is.
- Thomas Carlyle
#Claims
#Due
#Him
#Obedience
#Woe
It is a strange trade that of advocacy. Your intellect, your highest heavenly gift is hung up in the shop window like a loaded pistol for sale.
- Thomas Carlyle
#Advocacy
#Gift
#Strange
#Up
#Window
Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.
- Thomas Carlyle
#Dreadful
#Idleness
#Labor
#Writing
Man's unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite.
- Thomas Carlyle
#Cannot
#Cunning
#Greatness
#He
#Man
A man cannot make a pair of shoes rightly unless he do it in a devout manner.
- Thomas Carlyle
#Cannot
#He
#Make
#Man
#Shoes
Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.
- Thomas Carlyle
#Every
#Minority
#New
#Opinion
#Precisely
The world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was.
- Thomas Carlyle
#Always
#Republic
#World
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.
- Thomas Carlyle
#Man
#Men
#Wise Man
#Wise
#World
Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation.
- Thomas Carlyle
#Hard Work
#Hard
#Person
#Suffering
#Work
The spiritual is the parent of the practical.
- Thomas Carlyle
#Parent
#Practical
#Spiritual
No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.
- Thomas Carlyle
#Believe
#Force
#Iron
#Person
#Soul
No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor.
- Thomas Carlyle
#Ability
#Amount
#Avail
#Honor
#Without
Worship is transcendent wonder.
- Thomas Carlyle
#Transcendent
#Wonder
#Worship
It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.
- Thomas Carlyle
#Always
#Before
#Head
#Heart
#See
What you see, but can't see over is as good as infinite.
- Thomas Carlyle
#Good
#Infinite
#Over
#See
#You
It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.
- Thomas Carlyle
#Happy
#Hope
#Make
#People
#Politics
The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity.
- Thomas Carlyle
#Deeds
#Free
#Heart
#Life
#Man
Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.
- Thomas Carlyle
#Common
#Love Is
#Love
#Many
#Points
One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO.
- Thomas Carlyle
#Certainty
#Must
#Them
#Verify
#Yes
No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.
- Thomas Carlyle
#Being
#Giving
#Man
#Through
#World
In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment.
- Thomas Carlyle
#Always
#Beginning
#Every
#Moment
#Most
The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
- Thomas Carlyle
#Away
#Forever
#Same
#Today
#Yesterday
Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness; on the confines of the two everlasting empires, necessity and free will.
- Thomas Carlyle
#Darkness
#Free
#Light
#Soul
#Will
For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.
- Thomas Carlyle
#Bad
#Good
#Man
#Right
#See
I don't pretend to understand the Universe - it's a great deal bigger than I am.
- Thomas Carlyle
#Deal
#Great
#I Am
#Understand
#Universe
Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.
- Thomas Carlyle
#Faith
#Force
#Kings
#Persuasion
#World
For, if a good speaker, never so eloquent, does not see into the fact, and is not speaking the truth of that - is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?
- Thomas Carlyle
#Creation
#Good
#Never
#See
#Truth
Show me the person you honor, for I know better by that the kind of person you are. For you show me what your idea of humanity is.
- Thomas Carlyle
#Better
#Honor
#Humanity
#Me
#Person
A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.
- Thomas Carlyle
#About
#Arguing
#Believing
#Man
#Things
A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.
- Thomas Carlyle
#Essential
#Gifted
#Person
#Point
#Rest
Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
- Thomas Carlyle
#Beauty
#Goodness
#Mysterious
#Virtue
Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.
- Thomas Carlyle
#Fashion
#Great
#Silence
#Together
#Which
No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.
- Thomas Carlyle
#Great Men
#Great
#Man
#Men
#Own
All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.
- Thomas Carlyle
#Been
#Done
#Magic
#Mankind
#Preservation
Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere.
- Thomas Carlyle
#Imperfection
#Nowhere
#Off
#Person
#Wait
No person is important enough to make me angry.
- Thomas Carlyle
#Angry
#Enough
#Important
#Me
#Person
No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.
- Thomas Carlyle
#Bad
#Heartily
#Man
#Once
#Who
Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
- Thomas Carlyle
#Eyes
#Glittering
#Objects
#Weak
The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious.
- Thomas Carlyle
#Between
#Conscious
#Difference
#Great
History, a distillation of rumour.
- Thomas Carlyle
#History
#Rumour
Let each become all that he was created capable of being.
- Thomas Carlyle
#Become
#Being
#Capable
#Created
#He
In books lies the soul of the whole past time.
- Thomas Carlyle
#Books
#Past
#Soul
#Time
#Whole
If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?
- Thomas Carlyle
#Creation
#More
#Speak
#Truth Is
#Truth
War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle.
- Thomas Carlyle
#Battle
#Fight
#Own
#Thieves
#Two
#War
This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.
- Thomas Carlyle
#Miracle
#Science
#Will
#Wonderful
#World
All great peoples are conservative.
- Thomas Carlyle
#Conservative
#Great
If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.
- Thomas Carlyle
#Done
#Succeeded
#Unjust
#You
Oh, give us the man who sings at his work.
- Thomas Carlyle
#Man
#Oh
#Us
#Who
#Work
Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.
- Thomas Carlyle
#Dead
#Divine
#Human
#Silence
#Speech
Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will.
- Thomas Carlyle
#Day
#Every Day
#Life
#Music
#World
If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of the doubt.
- Thomas Carlyle
#Always
#Doubt
#Girl
#Kiss
#Pretty Girl
Love is the only game that is not called on account of darkness.
- Thomas Carlyle
#Darkness
#Game
#Love Is
#Love
#Only
Necessity dispenseth with decorum.
- Thomas Carlyle
#Decorum
#Necessity
History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.
- Thomas Carlyle
#Done
#Great
#History
#People
#Youth
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.
- Thomas Carlyle
#Heart
#Humor
#Laughter
#Lie
#Love
The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.
- Thomas Carlyle
#Brave
#Done
#Enough
#Happiness
#Person
#Work
Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.
- Thomas Carlyle
#Glad
#Hopes
#Life
#Only
#Youth
Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.
- Thomas Carlyle
#Age
#Old Age
#Sorrow
#Thankful
#Work
The eye sees what it brings the power to see.
- Thomas Carlyle
#Brings
#Eye
#Power
#See
#Sees
It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.
- Thomas Carlyle
#Age
#Follow
#Happiness
#Men
#Real
The fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself.
- Thomas Carlyle
#Fear
#Fearful
#Unbelief
#Yourself
Be not a slave of words.
- Thomas Carlyle
#Communication
#Words
Clever men are good, but they are not the best.
- Thomas Carlyle
#Best
#Clever
#Good
#Men
He who could foresee affairs three days in advance would be rich for thousands of years.
- Thomas Carlyle
#Days
#He
#Rich
#Three
#Who
Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
- Thomas Carlyle
#Activity
#Insight
#More
#Nothing
#Than
Wonder is the basis of worship.
- Thomas Carlyle
#Basis
#Religion
#Wonder
#Worship
Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.
- Thomas Carlyle
#Action
#Depth
#Height
#Narrative
#Well
None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.
- Thomas Carlyle
#Accomplish
#Alone
#Anything
#Us
#Will
The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.
- Thomas Carlyle
#Courage
#Desire
#Die
#Live
#Prize
Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man.
- Thomas Carlyle
#Isolation
#Man
#Sum Total
#Sum
#Total
Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.
- Thomas Carlyle
#Conduct
#Conviction
#Unless
#Worthless
Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.
- Thomas Carlyle
#Honor
#Know
#Man
#Me
#Will
A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy.
- Thomas Carlyle
#Heart
#Joy
#Kindness
#Laugh
#True
Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil; for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it.
- Thomas Carlyle
#Devil
#Good
#Language
#Long
#Sarcasm
In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government.
- Thomas Carlyle
#Government
#Like
#People
#Say
#Wisdom
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