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The past is all holy to us; the dead are all holy; even they that were wicked when alive.
By Thomas Carlyle
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?
By Thomas Carlyle
If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music. Music
By Thomas Carlyle
Cash-payment never was, or could except for a few years be, the union-bond of man to man. Cash never yet paid one man fully his deserts to another; nor could it, nor can it, now or henceforth to the end of the world.
By Thomas Carlyle
It is a mathematical fact that the casting of this pebble from my hand alters the centre of gravity of the universe.
By Thomas Carlyle
It is the unseen and the spiritual in people that determines the outward and the actual.
By Thomas Carlyle
The person who cannot laugh is not only ready for treason, and deceptions, their whole life is already a treason and deception.
By Thomas Carlyle
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.
By Thomas Carlyle
Not our logical faculty, but our imaginative one is king over us. I might say, priest and prophet to lead us to heaven-ward, or magician and wizard to lead us hellward.
By Thomas Carlyle
Painful for a person is rebellious independence, only in loving companionship with his associates does a person feel safe: Only in reverently bowing down before the higher does a person feel exalted.
By Thomas Carlyle
The hell of these days is the fear of not getting along, especially of not making money.
By Thomas Carlyle
Men are to be guided only by their self-interests. Good government is a good balancing of these; and, except a keen eye and appetite for self-interest, requires no virtue in any quarter. To both parties it is emphatically a machine: to the discontented, a taxing-machine; to the contented, a machine for securing property. Its duties and its faults are not those of a father, but of an active parish-constable.
By Thomas Carlyle
If the cut of the costume indicates intellect and talent, then the color indicates temper and heart.
By Thomas Carlyle
Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such; it is an accident, not a property of man.
By Thomas Carlyle
It is not a lucky word, this name impossible; no good comes of those who have it so often in their mouths.
By Thomas Carlyle
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.
By Thomas Carlyle
No sadder proof can be given of a person's own tiny stature, than their disbelief in great people.
By Thomas Carlyle
Not on morality, but on cookery, let us build our stronghold: there brandishing our frying-pan, as censer, let us offer sweet incense to the Devil, and live at ease on the fat things he has provided for his elect!
By Thomas Carlyle