The great law of culture is: Let each become all that he was created capable of being.
Quotes from Critical and Miscellaneous Essays — Thomas Carlyle
1795–1881 Scotland
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A well-written Life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
Critical and Miscellaneous Essays (1827)
History is the essence of innumerable biographies.
Critical and Miscellaneous Essays (1827)
Critical and Miscellaneous Essays (1827)
In every man's writings, the character of the writer must lie recorded.
Critical and Miscellaneous Essays (1827)
Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
Critical and Miscellaneous Essays (1827)
His religion at best is an anxious wish, — like that of Rabelais, a great Perhaps.
Critical and Miscellaneous Essays (1827)
A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.
Critical and Miscellaneous Essays (1827)
Clever men are good, but they are not the best.
Critical and Miscellaneous Essays (1827)
A poet without love were a physical and metaphysical impossibility.
Critical and Miscellaneous Essays (1827)
How does the poet speak to men with power, but by being still more a man than they?
Critical and Miscellaneous Essays (1827)
There is endless merit in a man's knowing when to have done.
Critical and Miscellaneous Essays (1827)
The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.
Critical and Miscellaneous Essays (1827)
Love is ever the beginning of Knowledge as fire is of light.
Critical and Miscellaneous Essays (1827)
The three great elements of modern civilization, gunpowder, printing, and the Protestant religion.
Critical and Miscellaneous Essays (1827)
He who would write heroic poems should make his whole life a heroic poem.
Critical and Miscellaneous Essays (1827)
A mystic bond of brotherhood makes all men one.
Critical and Miscellaneous Essays (1827)
Literary men are...a perpetual priesthood.
Critical and Miscellaneous Essays (1827)
Critical and Miscellaneous Essays (1827)
Critical and Miscellaneous Essays (1827)
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