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Thomas Carlyle Quotes
«Even in the meanest sorts of labor, the whole soul of a man is composed into a kind of real harmony the instant he sets himself to work.»
«We have our little theory on all human and divine things. Poetry, the workings of genius itself, which, in all times, with one or another meaning, has been called Inspiration, and held to be mysterious and inscrutable, is no longer without its scientific exposition. The building of the lofty rhyme is like any other masonry or bricklaying: we have theories of its rise, height, decline and fall -- which latter, it would seem, is now near, among all people.»
Author: Thomas Carlyle
(Essayist, Historian)
| Keywords:
bricklaying, decline, exposition, Expositions, inscrutable, rhyme, scientific theory, The Building, workings
«For man is not the creature and product of Mechanism; but, in a far truer sense, its creator and producer.»
«Wonderful ''Force of Public Opinion!'' We must act and walk in all points as it prescribes; follow the traffic it bids us, realize the sum of money, the degree of ''influence'' it expects of us, or we shall be lightly esteemed; certain mouthfuls of articulate wind will be blown at us, and this what mortal courage can front?»
Author: Thomas Carlyle
(Essayist, Historian)
| Keywords:
articulate, esteemed, mouthful, mouthfuls, prescribes, sum of money
«No good book or good thing of any kind shows it best face at first. No the most common quality of in a true work of art that has excellence and depth, is that at first sight it produces a certain disappointment.»
«Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation.»
«If those gentlemen would let me alone I should be much obliged to them. I would say, as Shakespeare would say... ''Sweet Friend, for Jesus sake forbear.''»
«No sooner does a great man depart, and leave his character as public property, than a crowd of little men rushes towards it. There they are gathered together, blinking up to it with such vision as they have, scanning it from afar, hovering round it this way and that, each cunningly endeavoring, by all arts, to catch some reflex of it in the little mirror of himself.»