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No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, could ever compel the soul of man to believe or to disbelieve: it is his own indefeasible light, that judgment of his; he will reign and believe there by the grace of God alone!
Heroes and Hero Worship (1840)
It depends on what we read, after all manner of Professors have done their best for us.
Heroes and Hero-Worship (1840)
The Noble in the high place, the Ignoble in the low; that is, in all times and in all countries, the Almighty Maker's Law.
Latter-Day Pamphlets (1850)
The panting breathless haste and vehemence of a man struggling in the thick of battle for life and salvation; this is the mood he is in!
Heroes and Hero-Worship (1840)
The true University of these days is a Collection of Books.
Heroes and Hero-Worship (1840)
Literature is the Thought of thinking Souls.
Sir Walter Scott (1838)
It is the very joy of man's heart to admire, where he can; nothing so lifts him from all his mean imprisonments, were it but for moments, as true admiration.
Past and Present (1843)
Yes, truly, it is a great thing for a Nation that it get an articulate voice; that it produce a man who will speak forth melodiously what the heart of it means!
Heroes and Hero-Worship (1840)
Speech is silvern, silence is golden.
Alas, the Hero from of old has had to cramp himself into strange shapes: the world knows not well at any time what to do with him, so foreign is his aspect in the world!
Heroes and Hero-Worship (1840)
A healthy hatred of scoundrels.
Latter-Day Pamphlets (1850)
I came hither [Craigenputtoch] solely with the design to simplify my way of life and to secure the independence through which I could be enabled to remain true to myself.
Critical and Miscellaneous Essays (1827)
No solitary miscreant, scarcely any solitary maniac, would venture on such actions and imaginations, as large communities of sane men have, in such circumstances, entertained as sound wisdom.
Signs of the Times (1829)
To the British subject who fancies genius may be lodged in him, this liberty remains; and truly it is, if well computed, almost the only one he has.
Latter-Day Pamphlets (1850)
She requires of a thing only that it be genuine of heart; she will protect it if so; will not, if not so. There is a soul of truth in all the things she ever gave harbor to.
Heroes and Hero-Worship (1840)
In a valiant suffering for others, not in a slothful making others suffer for us, did nobleness ever lie.
Past and Present (1843)
Love not Pleasure; love God.
Sartor Resartus (1833)
It is no longer the moral, religious, spiritual condition of the people that is our concern, but their physical, practical, economical condition, as regulated by public laws.
Signs of the Times (1829)
Theocracy, Government of God, is precisely the thing to be struggled for!
Heroes and Hero-Worship (1840)
It is the question of questions. All that Democracy ever meant lies there: the attainment of a truer and truer Aristocracy, or Government again by the Best.
Latter-Day Pamphlets (1850)