Source: The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle
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Famous Thomas Carlyle Quotes
“The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.”
“A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.”
Source: Works
Source: Critical and miscellaneous essays, collected and republ
“A man cannot make a pair of shoes rightly unless he do it in a devout manner.”
Source: The Sayings of Thomas Carlyle
“Clever men are good, but they are not the best.”
Source: Critical and Miscellaneous Essays
“Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.”
“Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.”
“No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.”
Source: Critical and Miscellaneous Essays
Source: The Works of Thomas Carlyle
“Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.”
“No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.”
“The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity.”
Source: Works
Source: Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: Collected and Republished
“No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.”
Source: Autobiography of J.S. Mill & on Liberty; Characteristics, Inaugural Address at Edinburgh & Sir Walter Scott
“Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man.”
Source: Past and Present
Source: Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh in Three Books
“The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.”
Source: The Works of Thomas Carlyle
Source: Works
Source: On Heroes, Hero-worship and the Heroic in History
“In a certain sense all men are historians.”
Source: Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: By Thomas Carlyle
“That there should one man die ignorant who had capacity for knowledge, this I call a tragedy.”
Source: Sartor Resartus
Source: Sartor Resartus
“Of a truth, men are mystically united: a mystic bond of brotherhood makes all men one.”
Source: Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: Collected and Republished
Source: Critical and Miscellaneous Essays
Source: On heroes, hero-worship, & the heroic in history: six lectures ; reported, with emendations and additions
Source: Critical and Miscellaneous Essays ...
“One monster there is in the world, the idle man.”
Source: Past and Present