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Frases célebres de Thomas Carlyle

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“En lugar de decir que el hombre es el producto de las circunstancias, sería más acertado decir que el hombre es el arquitecto de las circunstancias.”

Thomas Carlyle

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“El silencio es tan profundo como la Eternidad, el habla es tan superficial como el tiempo.”

Thomas Carlyle

“La educación y la cortesía abren todas las puertas.”

Thomas Carlyle

Fuente: [Villamarin Pulido], Luis Alberto. Superación personal: Tesoro de la sabiduría- Tomo II. Editorial Luis Villamarin, 2015. ISBN 9781512274851, p. 87.

“Aquel que no puede guardar sus pensamientos dentro de sí nunca llevará a cabo grandes cosas.”

Thomas Carlyle

Fuente: [Cantú Garza], Miqueas. «En la opinión.» 24 de mayo de 2015. http://www.laprensa.mx/notas.asp?id=362577 La Prensa. Consultado el 22 de febrero de 2019.

“El hombre hace menos de lo que debería, a menos que haga todo lo que puede.”

Thomas Carlyle

Original: «Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can».
Fuente: [Balachandran], Mira. Quotation for all Occasions. Emerald Publishers. ISBN 9788179662427, p. 72. https://books.google.es/books?id=-1siBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA72&dq=Men+do+less+than+they+ought,+unless+they+do+all+they+can.+Thomas+Carlyle&hl=es&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwijhf_m38_gAhWIAGMBHeiDB0QQ6AEIKzAA#v=onepage&q=Men%20do%20less%20than%20they%20ought%2C%20unless%20they%20do%20all%20they%20can.%20Thomas%20Carlyle&f=false

“De nada le sirve al hombre lamentarse de los tiempos en que vive, pero siempre le es posible mejorarlos.”

Thomas Carlyle

Fuente: [Martín], Santiago. La oscuridad luminosa. Editorial EDAF, 2016. ISBN 9788441436862. https://books.google.es/books?id=YGezDAAAQBAJ&pg=PT109&dq=De+nada+le+sirve+al+hombre+lamentarse+de+los+tiempos+en+que+vive,+pero+siempre+le+es+posible+mejorarlos.+Thomas+Carlyle&hl=es&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwixj9L7zc_gAhWsyoUKHUC4CuIQ6AEIKDAA#v=onepage&q=De%20nada%20le%20sirve%20al%20hombre%20lamentarse%20de%20los%20tiempos%20en%20que%20vive%2C%20pero%20siempre%20le%20es%20posible%20mejorarlos.%20Thomas%20Carlyle&f=false

Frases de hombres de Thomas Carlyle

“Escrito está que el fin del hombre es la acción y no el pensamiento.”

Thomas Carlyle

“La adversidad pesa a veces muy duramente; pero por un hombre que pueda resistir la prosperidad se encuentra un centenar que resistirá la desgracia.”

Thomas Carlyle

Fuente: [Quevedo], Numa. La meta posible: visión continental. Prólogo de Agustín Rodríguez Garabito. Editorial Kelly, Bogotá, 1970, p. 284.

“La verdad es que el arte de escribir es la cosa más milagrosa de cuantas el hombre ha imaginado.”

Thomas Carlyle

Fuente: Noguera Trujillo, Héctor. 100 lecciones para aprendices de escritor. Panorama Editorial, 2005. ISBN 9789683813923, p. 90. https://books.google.es/books?id=_kloewDzZRAC&pg=PA90&dq=La+verdad+es+que+el+arte+de+escribir+es+la+cosa+m%C3%A1s+milagrosa+de+cuantas+el+hombre+ha+imaginado.+Thomas+Carlyle&hl=es&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi0keno8M_gAhUG2xoKHWQtA4MQ6AEIKDAA#v=onepage&q=La%20verdad%20es%20que%20el%20arte%20de%20escribir%20es%20la%20cosa%20m%C3%A1s%20milagrosa%20de%20cuantas%20el%20hombre%20ha%20imaginado.%20Thomas%20Carlyle&f=false

“Nada levanta tanto a un hombre por encima de las pequeñas mezquindades de la vida como admirar, sea lo que sea o a quienquiera que sea.”

Thomas Carlyle

Fuente: [Benavent], Joan. Perón, luz y sombras: 1946-1955, la dictadura populista. Colección Memoria. Edición ilustrada. Editorial Letras e Imagos, 2006. p. 1.254.

“Ningún gran hombre vive en vano; la historia del mundo no pasa de ser la biografía de grandes hombres.”

Thomas Carlyle

Fuente: [Jacobo], Jesús Michel. Las venas abiertas de la Universidad. Editorial Universidad Autónoma de Sinaloa, 1998. ISBN 9789687636689, p. 64.

“No hay nada más espantoso que la elocuencia de un hombre que no dice la verdad.”

Thomas Carlyle

Frases de verdad de Thomas Carlyle

“La biografía es la única historia verdadera.”

Thomas Carlyle

“La verdadera universidad de hoy en día es una colección de libros.”

Thomas Carlyle

Fuente: [Palomo Triguero], Eduardo. Cita-logía. Editorial Punto Rojo Libros, S.L. ISBN 978-84-16068-10-4, p. 185.

“Nadie piensa ni cree que sean verdad las cosas que pretende considerar como indiscutibles.”

Thomas Carlyle

“Una verdadera pintura del más pequeño hombre es capaz de interesar al hombre más grande.”

Thomas Carlyle

Thomas Carlyle Frases y Citas

“Una vez despertado el pensamiento no vuelve a dormitar.”

Thomas Carlyle

“Puede considerarse bienaventurado y no pedir mayor felicidad el hombre que ha encontrado su trabajo.”

Thomas Carlyle

Fuente: La palabra y los pensamientos. Editorial Encrucijada, 2005. ISBN 9789568542009. p. 228.

De felicidad/suerte , De fe

“¡El misterio! Sí, un misterio profundo nos envuelve. Cuanta más luz, más misterio.”

Thomas Carlyle

“Ahora veo que, en general, el sarcasmo es el lenguaje del demonio.”

Thomas Carlyle

“A menudo los grandes son desconocidos o peor, mal conocidos.”

Thomas Carlyle

Fuente: [Meisel L.], Roberto. Quevedo, Gracián, Feijoo: máximas y reflexiones ; Una carta procedente del infierno ; Jovellanos, paradigma de la Ilustración española. Editorial Tercer Mundo, 1996. ISBN 9789589541685, p. 279.

Mal

“Con números se puede demostrar cualquier cosa.”

Thomas Carlyle

Fuente: Matemáticas 4. Serie integral por competencias DGB. Autores Francisco José Ortiz Campos, Francisco Javier Ortiz Cerecedo, Fernando José Ortiz Cerecedo. Grupo Editorial Patria, 2000. ISBN 9786077440024, p. 167. https://books.google.es/books?id=MqGEBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA166&dq=Con+n%C3%BAmeros+se+puede+demostrar+cualquier+cosa.+Thomas+Carlyle&hl=es&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiqwbqYzc_gAhVq1eAKHcWDD0gQ6AEILTAB#v=onepage&q=Con%20n%C3%BAmeros%20se%20puede%20demostrar%20cualquier%20cosa.%20Thomas%20Carlyle&f=false

“El asombro es la base de la adoración.”

Thomas Carlyle

Fuente: Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in. Thomas Carlyle. Editorial BoD – Books on Demand, 2018. ISBN 9783734027130, p. 64. https://books.google.es/books?id=OBpwDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA64&dq=Wonder+is+the+basis+of+worship.+Thomas+Carlyle&hl=es&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwicm8zQ0s_gAhVQXBoKHUFtBgIQ6AEIOzAC#v=onepage&q=Wonder%20is%20the%20basis%20of%20worship.%20Thomas%20Carlyle&f=false

“El culto al heroísmo existe, ha existido y existirá para siempre en la conciencia de la humanidad.”

Thomas Carlyle

“El ideal está en ti; el obstáculo para su cumplimiento también.”

Thomas Carlyle

Fuente: [Palomo Triguero], Eduardo. Cita-logía. Editorial Punto Rojo Libros, S.L. ISBN 978-84-16068-10-4, p. 160.

“En general, el sarcasmo es el lenguaje del diablo.”

Thomas Carlyle

“Es peligroso empezar con negociaciones, y fatal terminar con ellas.”

Thomas Carlyle

“Hablar es el arte de sofocar e interrumpir el pensamiento.”

Thomas Carlyle

Fuente: El Lenguaje oral: fundamentos, formas y técnicas. Editorial Plus Ultra, 1984, p. 67.

De arte

“La contemplación es un lujo; la acción, una necesidad.”

Thomas Carlyle

“La esencia del humorismo es la sensibilidad, la cálida y tierna simpatía para todas las formas de existencia.”

Thomas Carlyle

“La experiencia es el mejor de los maestros, sólo que la matrícula es muy pesada.”

Thomas Carlyle

Maestros

“La historia es la esencia de innumerables biografías.”

Thomas Carlyle

Fuente: [Suárez], Ada. El género biográfico en la obra de Eugenio d'Ors. Volumen 20 de Ambitos literarios: Ensayo. Edición ilustrada. Anthropos Editorial, 1988. ISBN 9788476580844, p. 215. https://books.google.es/books?id=t_tOszni-Q8C&pg=PA215&dq=La+historia+es+la+esencia+de+innumerables+biograf%C3%ADas.+Thomas+Carlyle&hl=es&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjhrvve5s_gAhVkxYUKHXeRA9UQ6AEIKDAA#v=onepage&q=La%20historia%20es%20la%20esencia%20de%20innumerables%20biograf%C3%ADas.%20Thomas%20Carlyle&f=false

Historia

“La historia es la destilación del rumor.”

Thomas Carlyle

Sin fuentes
Original: «History is the distillation of rumor».
Fuente: Uncle John's Facts to Go History Makers. Volumen 1 de Facts to Go. Autor Bathroom Readers' Institute. Editorial Simon and Schuster, 2013. ISBN 9781626861572. https://books.google.es/books?id=SipZDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT37&dq=History+is+a+distillation+of+rumor.+Thomas+Carlyle&hl=es&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjSjqHd58_gAhUmxYUKHZU5DJsQ6AEIKDAA#v=onepage&q=History%20is%20a%20distillation%20of%20rumor.%20Thomas%20Carlyle&f=false

Historia

“La mayor de las faltas, diría yo, es no tener conciencia de ninguna.”

Thomas Carlyle

“Liberar al mundo de toda clase de charlatanes es realmente obra muy digna de ser realizada. Son los tales la plaga única del mundo, y sin ellos dejaría de ser un mundo diabólico, miserable y maldito, comenzando a convertirse en un mundo divino, estancia de un bienestar siempre creciente.”

Thomas Carlyle

De mundo

“No pienses nunca mal de nadie. Pensar mal es la mejor manera de que las buenas obras de los demás no te sirvan de edificación.”

Thomas Carlyle

Mal

“Puede ser un héroe tanto el que triunfa como el que sucumbe, pero jamás el que abandona el combate.”

Thomas Carlyle

Fuente: [Amate Pou], Jordi. Paseando por una parte de la Historia: Antología de citas. Editorial Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial España, 2017. ISBN 9788417321871, p. 74.

“Sé un hombre honesto y habrá en el mundo un pícaro menos.”

Thomas Carlyle

De hombres , De mundo

“Si se siembra la semilla con fe y se cuida con perseverancia, solo será cuestión de tiempo recoger sus frutos.”

Thomas Carlyle

Fuente: [Huertas], Abner Alexander. El crecimiento de un líder. Editorial Vida, 2013. ISBN 9780829764000. https://books.google.es/books?id=6ynuV0OtuPcC&pg=PT106&dq=Si+se+siembra+la+semilla+con+fe+y+se+cuida+con+perseverancia,+solo+ser%C3%A1+cuesti%C3%B3n+de+recoger+sus+frutos.+Thomas+Carlyle&hl=es&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiH9LvI-M_gAhUd4OAKHfiZBT4Q6AEIKDAA#v=onepage&q=Si%20se%20siembra%20la%20semilla%20con%20fe%20y%20se%20cuida%20con%20perseverancia%2C%20solo%20ser%C3%A1%20cuesti%C3%B3n%20de%20recoger%20sus%20frutos.%20Thomas%20Carlyle&f=false

De fe , Perseverancia

“Sólo en un mundo de hombres sinceros es posible la unión.”

Thomas Carlyle

De mundo , De hombres

“Somos el milagro de los milagros, el gran inescrutable misterio de Dios.”

Thomas Carlyle

Fuente: Los héroes. Thomas Carlyle. Volumen 1009 de Austral: Serie anaranjada : biografías y vidas novelescas. Traducido por Francisco Gallach Palés. 2ª edición. Editorial Espasa-Calpe Argentina, 1951. Página 17.

De Dios

“Tarea delicada la de apaciguar muchedumbres, porque hacer mucho puede ser tan funesto como no hacer nada.”

Thomas Carlyle

Fuente: [Red], Samuel. Las mejores citas de provocación/Best provocation sayings: contra todo y contra todos. Coña fina. Editorial Grasindo, 2008. ISBN 9788479277802, p. 314.

“Un gran hombre demuestra su grandeza por la forma en que trata a los pequeños.”

Thomas Carlyle

Fuente: [Mora Caldas], Jorge. Temas que hacen pensar. 2016. ISBN 9789584681409, p. 223. https://books.google.es/books?id=bV8iDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA223&dq=Un+gran+hombre+demuestra+su+grandeza+por+la+forma+en+que+trata+a+los+peque%C3%B1os.+Thomas+Carlyle&hl=es&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi_2fjT-s_gAhUDxoUKHc8JAqcQ6AEIKDAA#v=onepage&q=Un%20gran%20hombre%20demuestra%20su%20grandeza%20por%20la%20forma%20en%20que%20trata%20a%20los%20peque%C3%B1os.%20Thomas%20Carlyle&f=false

De hombres

“Ya no es solo en el fulgurar de los astros, sino en la más insignificante hierbecilla, ¿No vemos por ventura a Dios si nos dedicamos a descubrirle con la luz de la inteligencia?”

Thomas Carlyle

De Dios , Inteligencia

“El universo no es sino un vasto símbolo de Dios.”

Thomas Carlyle

De Dios , Universo

“El Universo no es más que un vasto símbolo de Dios: aun más, en rigor ¿qué es el hombre mismo sino un símbolo de Dios?”

Thomas Carlyle libro Sartor Resartus

Fuente: Sartor resartus: Vida y opiniones del Señor Teufelsdröckh, Volúmenes 1-2. Biblioteca sociológica internacional. Thomas Carlyle. Editorial Imp. de Henrich, 1905. Página 77.

Universo , De hombres , De Dios

“De la conquista podemos decir que no se ha producido jamás por la fuerza y la imposición brutal, pues no dura una conquista de esta naturaleza. La conquista, lo mismo que el poder de imposición, ha de aportar, cosa esencial en toda sociedad humana, algún beneficio consigo, o bien los hombres con toda su fuerza la rechazarán.”

Thomas Carlyle libro Past and Present

Fuente: [Alonso Piñeiro], Armando. Historia, volumen 1, números 2-4. Publicado en 1981, p. 120.
Fuente: Past and Present, 1843.
Fuente: Carlyle, Thomas. Past and Present. 2.ª Edición. Editorial Chapman and Hall, 1845.

De hombres , Naturaleza

Thomas Carlyle: Frases en inglés

“The highest ensign that men ever met and embraced under, the Cross itself, had no meaning save an accidental extrinsic one.”

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Bk. III, ch. 3.
1830s, Sartor Resartus (1833–1834)

“To reconcile Despotism with Freedom:—well, is that such a mystery? Do you not already know the way? It is to make your Despotism just. Rigorous as Destiny; but just too, as Destiny and its Laws. The Laws of God: all men obey these, and have no 'Freedom' at all but in obeying them. The way is already known, part of the way;—and courage and some qualities are needed for walking on it!”

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1840s, Past and Present (1843)

“If we read History with any degree of thoughtfulness, we shall find that checks and balances of Profit and Loss have never been the grand agents with men, that they have never been roused into deep, thorough, all-pervading efforts by any computable prospect of Profit and Loss, for any visible, finite object; but always for some invisible and infinite one.”

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1820s, Signs of the Times (1829)

“Why not? What is to hinder this Samson from governing? There is in him what far transcends all apprenticeships; in the man himself there exists a model of governing, something to govern by! There exists in him a heart-abhorrence of whatever is incoherent, pusillanimous, unveracious,—that is to say, chaotic, _un_governed; of the Devil, not of God. A man of this kind cannot help governing! He has the living ideal of a governor in him; and the incessant necessity of struggling to unfold the same out of him.”

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1840s, Past and Present (1843)

“men's hearts ought not to be set against one another; but set with one another, and all against the Evil Thing only.”

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1840s, Past and Present (1843)

“And wonderful it is to see how the Ideal or Soul, place it in what ugliest Body you may, will irradiate said Body with its own nobleness; will gradually, incessantly, mould, modify, new-form or reform said ugliest Body, and make it at last beautiful, and to a certain degree divine!”

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1840s, Past and Present (1843)

“The Age of Miracles is forever here!”

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1840s, Heroes and Hero-Worship (1840), The Hero as Priest

“Has any man, or any society of men, a truth to speak, a piece of spiritual work to do; they can nowise proceed at once and with the mere natural organs, but must first call a public meeting, appoint committees, issue prospectuses, eat a public dinner; in a word, construct or borrow machinery, wherewith to speak it and do it. Without machinery, they were hopeless, helpless.”

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1820s, Signs of the Times (1829)

“For the Norse people, the Man now named Odin, and Chief Norse God, we fancy, was such a man. A Teacher, and Captain of soul and of body; a Hero, of worth immeasurable; admiration for whom, transcending the known bounds, became adoration. Has he not the power of articulate Thinking; and many other powers, as yet miraculous? So, with boundless gratitude, would the rude Norse heart feel. Has he not solved for them the sphinx-enigma of this Universe; given assurance to them of their own destiny there? By him they know now what they have to do here, what to look for hereafter. Existence has become articulate, melodious by him; he first has made Life alive!—We may call this Odin, the origin of Norse Mythology: Odin, or whatever name the First Norse Thinker bore while he was a man among men. His view of the Universe once promulgated, a like view starts into being in all minds; grows, keeps ever growing, while it continues credible there. In all minds it lay written, but invisibly, as in sympathetic ink; at his word it starts into visibility in all. 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—!”

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1840s, Heroes and Hero-Worship (1840), The Hero as Divinity

“Truly it is a sad thing for a people, as for a man, to fall into Scepticism, into dilettantism, insincerity; not to know Sincerity when they see it. For this world, and for all worlds, what curse is so fatal?”

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1840s, Heroes and Hero-Worship (1840), The Hero As King

“For the Scepticism, as I said, is not intellectual only; it is moral also; a chronic atrophy and disease of the whole soul. A man lives by believing something; not by debating and arguing about many things.”

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1840s, Heroes and Hero-Worship (1840), The Hero as Man of Letters

“And yet I will venture to believe that in no time, since the beginnings of Society, was the lot of those same dumb millions of toilers so entirely unbearable as it is even in the days now passing over us. It is not to die, or even to die of hunger, that makes a man wretched; many men have died; all men must die,—the last exit of us all is in a Fire-Chariot of Pain. But it is to live miserable we know not why; to work sore and yet gain nothing; to be heart-worn, weary, yet isolated, unrelated, girt in with a cold universal Laissez-faire: it is to die slowly all our life long, imprisoned in a deaf, dead, Infinite Injustice, as in the accursed iron belly of a Phalaris' Bull! This is and remains forever intolerable to all men whom God has made. Do we wonder at French Revolutions, Chartisms, Revolts of Three Days? The times, if we will consider them, are really unexampled.”

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1840s, Past and Present (1843)

“it is our fatalest misery just now, not easily alterable, and yet urgently requiring to be altered, That no British man can attain to be a Statesman, or Chief of Workers, till he has first proved himself a Chief of Talkers: which mode of trial for a Worker, is it not precisely, of all the trials you could set him upon, the falsest and unfairest?”

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1850s, Latter-Day Pamphlets (1850), Stump Orator (May 1, 1850)

“Happy the people whose annals are blank in history books!”

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Life of Frederick the Great, Bk. XVI, ch. 1.
1860s

“I purpose now, while the impression is more pure and clear within me, to mark down the main things I can recollect of my father. To myself, if I live to after-years, it may be instructive and interesting, as the past grows ever holier the farther we leave it. My mind is calm enough to do it deliberately, and to do it truly. The thought of that pale earnest face which even now lies stiffened into death in that bed at Scotsbrig, with the Infinite all of worlds looking down on it, will certainly impel me. It is good to know how a true spirit will vindicate itself with truth and freedom through what obstructions soever; how the acorn cast carelessly into the wilder-ness will make room for itself and grow to be an oak. This is one of the cases belonging to that class, "the lives of remarkable men," in which it has been said, "paper and ink should least of all be spared." I call a man remarkable who becomes a true workman in this vineyard of the Highest. Be his work that of palace-building and kingdom-founding, or only of delving and ditching, to me it is no matter, or next to none. All human work is transitory, small in itself, contemptible. Only the worker thereof, and the spirit that dwelt in him, is significant. I proceed without order, or almost any forethought, anxious only to save what I have left and mark it as it lies in me.”

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1880s, Reminiscences (1881)

“This great maxim of philosophy he had gathered by the teaching of nature alone — that man was created to work, not to speculate or feel or dream. Accordingly, he set his whole heart thitherwards. He did work wisely and unweariedly, and perhaps performed more with the tools he had than any man I now know.”

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1880s, Reminiscences (1881)

“Paris, which for sixty years past has been the City of Insurrections. The French People had plumed themselves on being, whatever else they were not, at least the chosen "soldiers of liberty," who took the lead of all creatures in that pursuit, at least; and had become, as their orators, editors and litterateurs diligently taught them, a People whose bayonets were sacred, a kind of Messiah People, saving a blind world in its own despite, and earning for themselves a terrestrial and even celestial glory very considerable indeed.”

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1850s, Latter-Day Pamphlets (1850), The Present Time (February 1, 1850)

“Fire is the best of servents; but what a master!”

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Bk. II, ch. 9.
1840s, Past and Present (1843)

“To this man life is already as earnest and awful, and beautiful and terrible, as death.”

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1840s, Past and Present (1843)

“To a shower of gold most things are penetrable.”

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Pt. I, Bk. III, ch. 7.
1830s, The French Revolution. A History (1837)

“It must have been in his teens, perhaps rather early, that he and his elder brother John, with William Bell (afterwards of Wylie Hill, and a noted drover) and his brother, all met in the kiln at Eelief to play cards. The corn was dried then at home. There was a fire, therefore, aud perhaps it was both heat and light. The boys had played, perhaps, often enough for trifling stakes, and always parted in good humor. One night they came to some disagreement. My father spoke out what was in him about the folly, the sinfulness, of quarreling over a perhaps sinful amusement. The earnest mind persuaded other minds. They threw the cards into the fire, and (I think the younger Bell told my brother James) no one of the four ever touched a card again through life. My father certainly never hinted at such a game since I knew him. I cannot remember that I, at that age, had any such force of belief. Which of us can?”

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1880s, Reminiscences (1881)

“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!”

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1840s, Heroes and Hero-Worship (1840), The Hero as Prophet

“Mahomet was only fourteen; had no language but his own: much in Syria must have been a strange unintelligible whirlpool to him. But the eyes of the lad were open; glimpses of many things would doubtless be taken in, and lie very enigmatic as yet, which were to ripen in a strange way into views, into beliefs and insights one day. These journeys to Syria were probably the beginning of much to Mahomet. One other circumstance we must not forget: that he had no school-learning; of the thing we call school-learning none at all.”

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1840s, Heroes and Hero-Worship (1840), The Hero as Prophet

“In looking at this wreck of Governments in all European countries, there is one consideration that suggests itself, sadly elucidative of our modern epoch. These Governments, we may be well assured, have gone to anarchy for this one reason inclusive of every other whatsoever, That they were not wise enough; that the spiritual talent embarked in them, the virtue, heroism, intellect, or by whatever other synonyms we designate it, was not adequate,—probably had long been inadequate, and so in its dim helplessness had suffered, or perhaps invited falsity to introduce itself; had suffered injustices, and solecisms, and contradictions of the Divine Fact, to accumulate in more than tolerable measure; whereupon said Governments were overset, and declared before all creatures to be too false.”

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1850s, Latter-Day Pamphlets (1850), The New Downing Street (April 15, 1850)

“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.”

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Thomas Carlyle

1840s, Past and Present (1843)

“Complete, at the same time, was his confidence in his own judgment when it spoke to him decisively. He was one of those few that could believe and know as well as inquire and be of opinion. When I remember how much he admired intellectual force, how much he had of it himself, and yet how unconsciously and contentedly he gave others credit for superiority, I again see the healthy spirit of the genuine man.”

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Thomas Carlyle

1880s, Reminiscences (1881)

“The Public is an old woman. Let her maunder and mumble.”

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Thomas Carlyle

Journal (1835).
1830s

“All greatness is unconscious, or it is little and naught.”

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Thomas Carlyle

1830s, Sir Walter Scott (1838)

“If they be inhabited, what a scope for misery and folly; if they be na inhabited, what a waste of space.”

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Thomas Carlyle

On other stars
Attributed by John Burroughs on the first page of his 1920 book Accepting The Universe
Attributed by Carl Sagan at a November 20, 1972 symposium on "Life Beyond Earth and the Mind of Man", held at Boston University
[Berendzen, Richard, ed., Life Beyond Earth and the Mind of Man, 1973, NASA Scientific and Technical Information Office, Washington, DC, LCCN 73-600150]
"Life Beyond Earth and the Mind of Man 1975", Google Video, c. 0:02:50, 2006-09-11 http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8949469271181885482&q=owner%3Anara+type%3Anasa, Edited version of symposium, released by National Archives, under Google Video partnership http://www.archives.gov/google/.
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Variante: A sad spectacle. If they be inhabited, what a scope for misery and folly. It they be not inhabited, what a waste of space.