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“Speech is silver, silence is golden.”

Quote by Thomas Carlyle

Book:The Hero as Man of Letters

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The Hero as Man of Letters

This book delves into the portrayal of the hero as a man of letters, examining the literary devices and themes associated with this archetype in various works of fiction. more

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Thomas Carlyle, born on December 4, 1795, and died on February 5, 1881, was a prominent Scottish philosopher, historian, and writer. His works are known for their profound social criticism and unique literary style, which had a significant impact on 19th-century British literature and thought. more

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“I should say sincerity, a deep, great, genuine sincerity, is the first characteristic of all men in any way heroic.”

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Book:On Heroes, Hero-worship and the Heroic in History

Source: On Heroes, Hero-worship and the Heroic in History

“The world is an old woman, and mistakes any gilt farthing for a gold coin; whereby being often cheated, she will thenceforth trust nothing but the common copper.”

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“A battle is a terrible conjugation of the verb to kill: I kill, thou killest, he kills, we kill, they kill, all kill.”

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Author:Thomas Carlyle

“There is always hope in a man that actually and earnestly works: in Idleness alone is there perpetual despair.”

Author:Thomas Carlyle

“He that will not work according to his faculty, let him perish according to his necessity: there is no law juster than that.”

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Book:The Works of Thomas Carlyle

Source: The Works of Thomas Carlyle

“Does not every true man feel that he is himself made higher by doing reverence to what is really above him?”

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Book:The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle

Source: The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle

“Considering the multitude of mortals that handle the pen in these days, and can mostly spell, and write without glaring violations of grammar, the question naturally arises: How is it, then, that no work proceeds from them, bearing any stamp of authenticity and permanence; of worth for more than one day?”

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Book:Works

Source: Works

“Only perhaps in the United States, which alone of countries can do without governing,every man being at least able to live, and move off into the wilderness, let Congress jargon as it will,can such a form of so-called Government continue for any length of time to torment men with the semblance, when the indispensable substance is not there.”

Source: The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle

“The most unhappy of all men is the man who cannot tell what he is going to do, who has got no work cut-out for him in the world, and does not go into it. For work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind,honest work, which you intend getting done.”

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Book:The Works of Thomas Carlyle

Source: The Works of Thomas Carlyle

“Manhood begins when we have in any way made truce with Necessity; begins even when we have surrendered to Necessity, as the most part only do; but begins joyfully and hopefully only when we have reconciled ourselves to Necessity; and thus, in reality, triumphed over it, and felt that in Necessity we are free.”

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Book:The Works of Thomas Carlyle

Source: The Works of Thomas Carlyle