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On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and The Heroic in History quotes

Thomas Carlyle

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“The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.” Thomas Carlyle, On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and The Heroic in History
“No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.” Thomas Carlyle, On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and The Heroic in History
“The true University of these days is a Collection of Books.” Thomas Carlyle, On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and The Heroic in History
“Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.” Thomas Carlyle, On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and The Heroic in History
“All that Mankind has done, thought, gained or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of Books. They are the chosen possession of men.” Thomas Carlyle, On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and The Heroic in History
“One Life; a little gleam of Time between two Eternities; no second chance to us forevermore!” Thomas Carlyle, On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and The Heroic in History
“A man lives by believing something; not by debating and arguing about many things.” Thomas Carlyle, On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and The Heroic in History
“Certainly the Art of Writing is the most miraculous of all things man has devised.” Thomas Carlyle, On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and The Heroic in History
“The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.” Thomas Carlyle, On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and The Heroic in History
“No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, could ever compel the soul of a 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!” Thomas Carlyle, On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and The Heroic in History
“Enjoying things which are pleasant; that is not the evil: it is the reducing of our moral self to slavery by them that is.” Thomas Carlyle, On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and The Heroic in History
“His silence is more eloquent than words.” Thomas Carlyle, On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and The Heroic in History
“This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle; wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.” Thomas Carlyle, On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and The Heroic in History
“The History of the World, I said already, was the Biography of Great Men.” Thomas Carlyle, On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and The Heroic in History
“In Books lies the soul of the whole Past Time; the articulate audible voice of the Past, when the body and material substance of it has altogether vanished like a dream.” Thomas Carlyle, On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and The Heroic in History
“Great souls are always loyally submissive, reverent to what is over them; only small mean souls are otherwise.” Thomas Carlyle, On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and The Heroic in History
“There needs not a great soul to make a hero; there needs a god-created soul which will be true to its origin; that will be a great soul!” Thomas Carlyle, On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and The Heroic in History
“Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.” Thomas Carlyle, On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and The Heroic in History
“A man protesting against error is on the way towards uniting himself with all men that believe in truth.” Thomas Carlyle, On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and The Heroic in History
“Scepticism means not intellectual Doubt alone, but moral Doubt; all sorts of infidelity, insincerity, spiritual paralysis.” Thomas Carlyle, On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and The Heroic in History
“Ah, does not every true man feel that he is himself made higher by doing reverence to what is really above him?” Thomas Carlyle, On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and The Heroic in History
“To the mean eye all things are trivial, as certainly as to the jaundiced they are yellow.” Thomas Carlyle, On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and The Heroic in History
“Literature, so far as it is Literature, is an 'apocalypse of Nature,' a revealing of the 'open secret.'” Thomas Carlyle, On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and The Heroic in History
“The outer is of the day, under the empire of mode; the outer passes away, in swift endless changes; the inmost is the same yesterday, to-day and forever.” Thomas Carlyle, On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and The Heroic in History
“It is well said, in every sense, that a man's religion is the chief fact with regard to him.” Thomas Carlyle, On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and The Heroic in History

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