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Thomas Carlyle on Anniversary

1795–1881 Scotland

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For love is ever the beginning of Knowledge, as fire is of light.

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

Critical and Miscellaneous Essays (1827)

A poet without love were a physical and metaphysical impossibility.

Critical and Miscellaneous Essays (1827)

Love is ever the beginning of Knowledge as fire is of light.

Critical and Miscellaneous Essays (1827)

The Present is the living sum-total of the whole Past.

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.

Sir Walter Scott (1838)

Love not Pleasure; love God.

Sartor Resartus (1833)

That great mystery of TIME, were there no other; the illimitable, silent, never-resting thing called Time, rolling, rushing on, swift, silent, like an all-embracing ocean tide, on which we and all the Universe swim like exhalations, like apparitions which are, and then are not: this is forever very literally a miracle; a thing to strike us dumb,—for we have no word to speak about it.

Heroes and Hero Worship (1840)

Let Time and Chance combine, combine!
Let Time and Chance combine!
The fairest love from heaven above,
That love of yours was mine,
My Dear!
That love of yours was mine.

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Thomas Carlyle (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.