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Famous Thomas Carlyle Quotes
“Every noble crown is, and on Earth will forever be, a crown of thorns.”
Source: The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle
Source: Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: Collected and Republished
“Out of the lowest depths there is a path to the loftiest heights.”
Source: Works
“The coldest word was once a glowing new metaphor.”
Source: Past and Present
Source: On heroes, hero-worship, & the heroic in history: six lectures ; reported, with emendations and additions
Source: Fraser's Magazine
“Fire is the best of servants, but what a master!”
Source: Past and Present: Chartism, and Sartor Resartus
Source: The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle
“The steam-engine I call fire-demon and great; but it is nothing to the invention of fire.”
Source: Chartism: Past and Present. By Thomas Carlyle
Source: Past and Present
“All work is as seed sown; it grows and spreads, and sows itself anew.”
Source: Works
“Teaching school is but another word for sure and not very slow destruction.”
Source: Early Letters
“It is part of my creed that the only poetry is history, could we tell it right.”
Source: The French Revolution: a History
“Experience is the best of school masters, only the school fees are heavy.”
Source: Critical and Miscellaneous Essays ...
“The dust of controversy is merely the falsehood flying off.”
“There is often more spiritual force in a proverb than in whole philosophical systems.”
Source: On heroes, hero-worship, & the heroic in history: six lectures ; reported, with emendations and additions
“To the vulgar eye, few things are wonderful that are not distant”
Source: The Works of Thomas Carlyle
Source: Critical and Miscellaneous Essays
“Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.”
Source: The Works of Thomas Carlyle
Source: Works
Source: Works
Source: The French revolution. A history
Source: Sartor Resartus
Source: Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh : in Three Books
Source: Sartor Resartus: The life and opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh in three books: By Thomas Carlyle
Source: Past and Present: Chartism, and Sartor Resartus
Source: Carlyle Reader
Source: The French Revolution: a History: In Three Parts: I. the Bastille; II. the Constitution; III. the Guillotine : in Two Volumes
“Man is emphatically a proselytizing creature.”
Source: Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdrockh: Easyread Large Bold Edition
Source: The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle
Source: Past and Present: The Historian
“God Almighty never created a man half as wise as he looks.”
Source: Historical Essays
“He that has done nothing has known nothing.”
Source: Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: Collected and Republished
“Once turn to practice, error and truth will no longer consort together.”
Source: Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: Collected and Republished