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Quotes from Heroes and Hero Worship — Thomas Carlyle

1795–1881 Scotland

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Nay, in every epoch of the world, the great event, parent of all others, is it not the arrival of a Thinker in the world?

Heroes and Hero Worship (1840)

If a book come from the heart, it will contrive to reach other hearts; all art and authorcraft are of small amount to that.

Heroes and Hero Worship (1840)

One life;—a little gleam of Time between two Eternities.

Heroes and Hero Worship (1840)

Thought once awakened does not again slumber.

Heroes and Hero Worship (1840)

Poetry, therefore, we will call Musical Thought.

Heroes and Hero Worship (1840)

Silence is more eloquent than words.

Heroes and Hero Worship (1840)

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)

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)

Attribution

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