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

Quote by Thomas Carlyle

Book:The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle

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The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle

This compilation includes a variety of Carlyle's works, showcasing his influential writings on literature, history, and social issues. Carlyle's distinctive style, characterized by his passionate and eloquent prose, is prominently featured throughout the selected pieces. 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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“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?”

Writing One Day Handle Arise Authenticity Mortals These Days Pens Spells Considering Multitudes Stamps Grammar Violation Permanence

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.”

Men World Doe Done Cutting Mankind Honest He Man Misery Unhappy Cures Malady Honest Work

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.”

Way Made Reality Felt Hopefully Over It Manhood Truce

Book:The Works of Thomas Carlyle

Source: The Works of Thomas Carlyle

“Parliament will train you to talk; and above all things to hear, with patience, unlimited quantities of foolish talk.”

All Things Patience Train Foolish Quantity Unlimited Parliament

Book:The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle

Source: The Selected Works of 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.”

Source: The Works of Thomas Carlyle

“Hero-worship is the deepest root of all; the tap-root, from which in a great degree all the rest were nourished and grown . . . Worship of a Hero is transcendent admiration of a Great Man. I say great men are still admirable; I say there is, at bottom, nothing else admirable! No nobler feeling than this of admiration for one higher than himself dwells in the breast of men.”

Men Stills Feelings Hero Higher Degrees Worship Roots Bottom Great Men Breasts Admiration Admirable Transcendent Hero Worship

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

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

“All sorts of Heroes are intrinsically of the same material; that given a great soul, open to the Divine Significance of Life, then there is given a man fit to speak of this, to sing of this, to fight and work for this, in a great, victorious, enduring manner; there is given a Hero, -- the outward shape of whom will depend on the time and the environment he finds himself in.”

Men Soul Fighting Speak Given Environment Divine Materials Depends Hero Fit Shapes Endure Significance Great Souls Significance Of Life

Book:The Collected Works of Thomas Carlyle

Source: The Collected Works of Thomas Carlyle

“In the true Literary Man there is thus ever, acknowledged or not by the world, a sacredness: he is the light of the world; the world's Priest; -- guiding it, like a sacred Pillar of Fire, in its dark pilgrimage through the waste of Time.”

Men World Light Dark Fire Waste Sacred Priests Wasting Time Pillars Pilgrimage Sacredness Light Of The World

Book:The Collected Works of Thomas Carlyle

Source: The Collected Works of Thomas Carlyle

“We were wise indeed, could we discern truly the signs of our own time; and by knowledge of its wants and advantages, wisely adjust our own position in it. Let us, instead of gazing idly into the obscure distance, look calmly around us, for a little, on the perplexed scene where we stand. Perhaps, on a more serious inspection, something of its perplexity will disappear, some of its distinctive characters and deeper tendencies more clearly reveal themselves; whereby our own relations to it, our own true aims and endeavors in it, may also become clearer.”

Source: The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle