A terrible, beetle-browed, mastiff-mouthed, yellow-skinned, broad-bottomed, grim-taciturn individual; with a pair of dull-cruel-looking black eyes, and as much Parliamentary intellect and silent-rage in him. . . as I have ever seen in any man.

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Hodor," said Hodor.
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Come, gentle night; come, loving, black-browed night;
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I have never seen a man as fond of virtue as of women.
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(Letter to his mother, Margaret A. Carlyle THOMAS CARLYLE If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.
THOMAS CARLYLE One is hardly sensible of fatigue while he marches to music.
THOMAS CARLYLE Song is the heroics of speech.
THOMAS CARLYLE Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
THOMAS CARLYLE Cash-payment never was, or could except for a few years be, the union-bond of man to man. Cash never...
THOMAS CARLYLE Cash-payment is not the sole nexus of man with man.
THOMAS CARLYLE A fair day's wages for a fair day's work.
THOMAS CARLYLE The greatest of all faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.
THOMAS CARLYLE The past is all holy to us; the dead are all holy; even they that were wicked when alive.
THOMAS CARLYLE Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.
THOMAS CARLYLE Wonderful Force of Public Opinion! We must act and walk in all points as it prescribes; follow the t...
THOMAS CARLYLE Little other than a red tape Talking-machine, and unhappy Bag of Parliamentary Eloquence.
THOMAS CARLYLE It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.
THOMAS CARLYLE Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacle s, discouragement s, and impossibi...
THOMAS CARLYLE It is the unseen and the spiritual in people that determines the outward and the actual.
THOMAS CARLYLE Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.
THOMAS CARLYLE Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man
THOMAS CARLYLE The person who cannot laugh is not only ready for treason, and deceptions, their whole life is alrea...
THOMAS CARLYLE No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.
THOMAS CARLYLE In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have b...
THOMAS CARLYLE Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
THOMAS CARLYLE The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to g...
THOMAS CARLYLE But the whim we have of happiness is somewhat thus. By certain valuations, and averages, of our own ...
THOMAS CARLYLE Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance -- the cheerful man will do mor...
THOMAS CARLYLE Oh, give us the man who sings at his work.
THOMAS CARLYLE In private life I never knew anyone interfere with other people's disputes but he heartily repented ...
THOMAS CARLYLE Life is a little gleam of time between two eternity s.
THOMAS CARLYLE Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundre...
THOMAS CARLYLE Action hangs, as it were, dissolved in speech, in thoughts whereof speech is the shadow; and precipi...
THOMAS CARLYLE The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.
THOMAS CARLYLE Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.
THOMAS CARLYLE Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.
THOMAS CARLYLE Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
THOMAS CARLYLE No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the wor...
THOMAS CARLYLE Only perhaps in the United States, which alone of countries can do without governing,every man being...
THOMAS CARLYLE Of America it would ill beseem any Englishman, and me perhaps as little as another, to speak unkindl...
THOMAS CARLYLE Democracy will prevail when men believe the vote of Judas as good as that of Jesus Christ.
THOMAS CARLYLE The most unhappy of all men is the man who cannot tell what he is going to do, who has got no work c...
THOMAS CARLYLE Manhood begins when we have in any way made truce with Necessity; begins even when we have surrender...
THOMAS CARLYLE That a Parliament, especially a Parliament with Newspaper Reporters firmly established in it, is an ...
THOMAS CARLYLE Parliament will train you to talk; and above all things to hear, with patience, unlimited quantities...
THOMAS CARLYLE The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against unbelief.
THOMAS CARLYLE The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.
THOMAS CARLYLE Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct.
THOMAS CARLYLE No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to d...
THOMAS CARLYLE Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.
THOMAS CARLYLE The dust of controversy is merely the falsehood flying off.
THOMAS CARLYLE Scepticism, as I said, is not intellectual only; it is moral also; a chronic atrophy and disease of ...
THOMAS CARLYLE Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to b...
THOMAS CARLYLE By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ...
THOMAS CARLYLE The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is st...
THOMAS CARLYLE The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.
THOMAS CARLYLE Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.
THOMAS CARLYLE Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of a man you are. It shows me what your ideal o...
THOMAS CARLYLE It is not a lucky word, this name impossible; no good comes of those who have it so often in their m...
THOMAS CARLYLE Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.
THOMAS CARLYLE Not our logical faculty, but our imaginative one is king over us. I might say, priest and prophet to...
THOMAS CARLYLE The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
THOMAS CARLYLE Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
THOMAS CARLYLE If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.
THOMAS CARLYLE What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greate...
THOMAS CARLYLE The fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself.
THOMAS CARLYLE Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.
THOMAS CARLYLE We have our little theory on all human and divine things. Poetry, the workings of genius itself, whi...
THOMAS CARLYLE No sadder proof can be given of a person's own tiny stature, than their disbelief in great people.
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THOMAS CARLYLE Painful for a person is rebellious independence, only in loving companionship with his associates do...
THOMAS CARLYLE Man is emphatically a proselytizing creature.
THOMAS CARLYLE The whole past is the procession of the present.
THOMAS CARLYLE The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
THOMAS CARLYLE The devil has his elect.
THOMAS CARLYLE All evil is like a nightmare; the instant you stir under it, the evil is gone.
THOMAS CARLYLE Men are to be guided only by their self-interests. Good government is a good balancing of these; and...
THOMAS CARLYLE In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; ...
THOMAS CARLYLE A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.
THOMAS CARLYLE The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.
THOMAS CARLYLE Society is founded upon cloth.
THOMAS CARLYLE If the cut of the costume indicates intellect and talent, then the color indicates temper and heart.
THOMAS CARLYLE Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.
THOMAS CARLYLE Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of n...
THOMAS CARLYLE Wonder is the basis of worship.
THOMAS CARLYLE The first sin in our universe was Lucifer's self conceit.
THOMAS CARLYLE Silence is more eloquent than words.
THOMAS CARLYLE Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves.
THOMAS CARLYLE Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
THOMAS CARLYLE Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as E...
THOMAS CARLYLE When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silenc...
THOMAS CARLYLE Speech is of time, silence is of eternity.
THOMAS CARLYLE No sooner is your ocean filled, than he grumbles that it might have been of better vintage. Try him ...
THOMAS CARLYLE Man's unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him,...
THOMAS CARLYLE He that can work is born to be king of something.
THOMAS CARLYLE No age seemed the age of romance to itself.
THOMAS CARLYLE For suffering and enduring there is no remedy, but striving and doing.
THOMAS CARLYLE The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.
THOMAS CARLYLE It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered ...
THOMAS CARLYLE A fundamental mistake to call vehemence and rigidity strength! A man is not strong who takes convuls...
THOMAS CARLYLE The spiritual is the parent of the practical.
THOMAS CARLYLE No ghost was every seen by two pair of eyes.
THOMAS CARLYLE If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?
THOMAS CARLYLE The soul gives unity to what it looks at with love.
THOMAS CARLYLE History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in s...
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THOMAS CARLYLE The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.
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THOMAS CARLYLE A person usually has two reasons for doing something: a good reason and the real reason.
THOMAS CARLYLE Reality, if rightly interpreted, is grander than fiction.
THOMAS CARLYLE We were wise indeed, could we discern truly the signs of our own time; and by knowledge of its wants...
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THOMAS CARLYLE The world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was.
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THOMAS CARLYLE Let each become all that he was created capable of being.
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THOMAS CARLYLE The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.
THOMAS CARLYLE Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.
THOMAS CARLYLE Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.
THOMAS CARLYLE Clever men are good, but they are not the best.
THOMAS CARLYLE Pin your faith to no ones sleeves, haven't you two eyes of your own.
THOMAS CARLYLE I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
THOMAS CARLYLE The actual well seen is ideal.
THOMAS CARLYLE Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
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THOMAS CARLYLE Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.
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THOMAS CARLYLE Stern accuracy in inquiring, bold imagination in describing, these are the cogs on which history soa...
THOMAS CARLYLE Heroism is the divine relation which, in all times, unites a great man to other men.
THOMAS CARLYLE Hero-worship is the deepest root of all; the tap-root, from which in a great degree all the rest wer...
THOMAS CARLYLE All sorts of Heroes are intrinsically of the same material; that given a great soul, open to the Div...
THOMAS CARLYLE The hell of these days is the fear of not getting along, especially of not making money.
THOMAS CARLYLE The heart always sees before than the head can see.
THOMAS CARLYLE Ill-health, of body or of mind, is defeat. Health alone is victory. Let all men, if they can manage ...
THOMAS CARLYLE A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
THOMAS CARLYLE History is the essence of innumerable biographies.
THOMAS CARLYLE If those gentlemen would let me alone I should be much obliged to them. I would say, as Shakespeare ...
THOMAS CARLYLE No sooner does a great man depart, and leave his character as public property, than a crowd of littl...
THOMAS CARLYLE Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.
THOMAS CARLYLE Even in the meanest sorts of labor, the whole soul of a man is composed into a kind of real harmony ...
THOMAS CARLYLE For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities ...
THOMAS CARLYLE The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall.
THOMAS CARLYLE The Mystic Bond of Brotherhood makes all men one.
THOMAS CARLYLE No violent extreme endures.
THOMAS CARLYLE What are your historical Facts; still more your biographical? Wilt thou know a man by stringing-toge...
THOMAS CARLYLE I grow daily to honor facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a gr...
THOMAS CARLYLE Conclusive facts are inseparable from inconclusive except by a head that already understands and kno...
THOMAS CARLYLE Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
THOMAS CARLYLE

A terrible, beetle-browed, mastiff-mouthed, yellow-skinned, broad-bottomed, grim-taciturn individual; with a pair of dull-cruel-looking black eyes, and as much Parliamentary intellect and silent-rage in him. . . as I have ever seen in any man.

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A terrible, beetle-browed, mastiff-mouthed, yellow-skinned, broad-bottomed, grim-taciturn individual; with a pair of dull-cruel-looking black eyes, and as much Parliamentary intellect and silent-rage in him. . . as I have ever seen in any man.

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