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Thomas Carlyle Quotes

Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881)

Thomas Carlyle (1795 – 1881) was a Scottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist, translator, historian, mathematician, and teacher. Considered one of the most important social commentators of his time, he presented many lectures during his lifetime with acclaim in the Victorian era. A respected historian, his 1837 book The French Revolution: A History was the inspiration for Charles Dickens’ 1859 novel A Tale of Two Cities, and remains popular today. Carlyle’s 1836 Sartor Resartus is a notable philosophical novel.

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  • "Reality surpasses imagination, and we see breathing, brightening, and moving before our eyes some sights dearer to our hearts than any we ever beheld in the land of sleep." ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • "Many are those who love, but only because they are loved, and so their love is not true. But those who love, in spite of being spurned... their love alone is true." ~ Guy Finley
  • "Our strength grows out of our weakness. The indignation which arms itself with secret forces does not awaken until we are pricked and stung and sorely assailed... The wise man throws himself on the side of his assailants. It is more his interest than it is theirs to find his weak point." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • "We are but shadows: we are not endowed with real life, and all that seems most real about us is but the thinnest substance of a dream - till the heart be touched. That touch creates us - then we begin to be - thereby we are beings of reality and inheritors of eternity." ~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • "Do you have the patience to wait until your mud settles and the water is clear." ~ Lao Tse
  • "If men who do not understand life would only approach nearer to the phantoms which alarm them, and would examine them, they would see that they are only phantoms, and not realities." ~ Leo Tolstoy
  • "Each heart is a world. You find all within yourself that you would find without. The world that surrounds you is the magic glass of the world within you." ~ John Caspar Lavater
  • "Wander all alone, with nothing to call upon, nothing to depend on, and God, who exists, will keep his promise to you." ~ Vernon Howard (1918 - 1992, United States)
  • "I said to my soul, be still and wait without hope, for hope would be hope for the wrong thing." ~ T.S. Eliot (1888-1965)

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