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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.

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

— Thomas Carlyle

Fear

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“Endurance is patience concentrated.”

— Thomas Carlyle

Patience

“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

Science

“Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.”

— Thomas Carlyle

Time

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

— Thomas Carlyle

Business

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

— Thomas Carlyle

Wisdom

“The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious.”

— Thomas Carlyle

Great

“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

Great

“All great peoples are conservative.”

— Thomas Carlyle

Great

“Every noble work is at first impossible.”

— Thomas Carlyle

Work

“A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.”

— Thomas Carlyle

Knowledge

“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

Good

“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

Good

“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 of books.”

— Thomas Carlyle

Teacher

“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.”

— Thomas Carlyle

Good

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

— Thomas Carlyle

Music

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

— Thomas Carlyle

Great

“The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.”

— Thomas Carlyle

Good

“The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.”

— Thomas Carlyle

Courage

“In books lies the soul of the whole past time.”

— Thomas Carlyle

Time

“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