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Thomas Carlyle

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Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) was a Scottish essayist, historian, and philosopher who became one of the most influential social commentators of the Victorian era. Known for his passionate writing style and moral seriousness, Carlyle wrote extensively on history, heroism, and the human condition.

“Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.”

— Thomas Carlyle

Alone

All Quotes by Thomas Carlyle

“I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.”

— Thomas Carlyle

Wisdom

“Music is well said to be the speech of angels.”

— Thomas Carlyle

Music

“A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun.”

— Thomas Carlyle

Work

“If you look deep enough you will see music the heart of nature being everywhere music.”

— Thomas Carlyle

Music

“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

“Secrecy is the element of all goodness even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.”

— Thomas Carlyle

Beauty

“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

Good

“Blessed is he who has found his work let him ask no other blessedness.”

— Thomas Carlyle

Business

“The first duty of man is to conquer fear he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.”

— Thomas Carlyle

Fear

“Work alone is noble.”

— Thomas Carlyle

Alone

“Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can.”

— Thomas Carlyle

Men

“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

“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

Music

“A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.”

— Thomas Carlyle

Hope

“There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.”

— Thomas Carlyle

Good

“Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.”

— Thomas Carlyle

Great

“The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.”

— Thomas Carlyle

Great

“The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.”

— Thomas Carlyle

Happiness

“Oh, give us the man who sings at his work.”

— Thomas Carlyle

Work

“I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.”

— Thomas Carlyle

Great