Carlyle, Thomas quotes

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Carlyle: a passionate outpouring of words recommending silence and self-control.
Thomas Carlyle is incontestably dead at last, by the acknowledgment of all newspapers. I had, however, the pleasure of an intimate ...
Carlyle, a man of strong words and attitudes, a rhetorician out of necessity, constantly aroused by the craving for a strong faith ...
I could not help but say that Mr. Carlyle seemed the only virtuous philosopher we had. Upon which his wife answered, "My dear, if ...
The next work of Carlyle will be entitled "Bow-Wow," and the title-page will have a motto from the opening chapter of the Koran: " ...
In another's sentences the thought, though it may be immortal, is as it were embalmed, and does not strike you, but here it is so ...
With wonderful art he grinds into paint for his picture all his moods and experiences, so that all his forces may be brought to th ...
Only he who has had the good fortune to read them in the nick of time, in the most perceptive and recipient season of life, can gi ...
What else has been English news for so long a season? What else, of late years, has been England to us,--to us who read books, we ...
Philosophy ... does not talk, but write, or, when it comes personally before an audience, lecture or read; and therefore it must b ...
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