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1795–1881 Scotland
Thomas Carlyle (4 December 1795 – 5 February 5 1881) was a Scottish essayist, historian and philosopher of great prominence during the Victorian era. His wife was Jane Welsh Carlyle.
Scotland Academics Activists Conservatives Essayists Also known as: Carlyle, Thomas, Heroes and Hero-Worship, Latter-Day Pamphlets, Past and Present, Sartor Resartus
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With stupidity and sound digestion man may front much.
Sartor Resartus (1833)
The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.
Critical and Miscellaneous Essays (1827)
Fire is the best of servents; but what a master!
Past and Present (1843)
To a shower of gold most things are penetrable.
The French Revolution. A History (1837)
Happy the people whose annals are tiresome.
Speech is of time, silence is of eternity.
In the lowest stratum of social thraldom, nowhere was the noble soul doomed quite to choke, and die ignobly.
Latter-Day Pamphlets (1850)
"A fair day's wages for a fair day's work": it is as just a demand as governed men ever made of governing. It is the everlasting right of man.
Past and Present (1843)
Our grand business is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
For the eye of the intellect "sees in all objects what it brought with it the means of seeing."
Scarcely two hundred years back can Fame recollect articulately at all; and there she but maunders and mumbles.
There are but two ways of paying debt—increase of industry in raising income, increase of thrift in laying out.
Money, which is of very uncertain value, and sometimes has no value at all and even less.
Arrestment, sudden really as a bolt out of the blue has hit strange victims.
Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind — honest work, which you intend getting done.
Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.
Sir Walter Scott (1838)
Woe to him, * * * who has no court of appeal against the world's judgment.
Experience is the best of schoolmasters, only the school-fees are heavy.
Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.
If they could forget for a moment the correggiosity of Correggio and the learned babble of the sale-room and varnishing Auctioneer.
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