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Person·Thomas Carlyle✕clear

The history of the world is but the biography of great men.

On Heroes · 1840

★ 5.4

"A fair day's-wages for a fair day's work:" it is as just a demand as Governed men ever made of Governing. It is the everlasting right of man.

Past and Present · 1843

★ 5.3

It is not what a man outwardly has or wants that constitutes the happiness or misery of him. Nakedness, hunger, distress of all kinds, death itself have been cheerfully suffered, when the heart was right. It is the feeling of injustice that is insupportable to all men.

Chartism · 1840

★ 5.2

Burke said there were three estates in parliament; but, in the reporter's gallery yonder, there sat a fourth estate more important far than they all.

On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic · 1840

★ 5.2

Not a "gay science," I should say, like some we have heard of; no, a dreary, desolate, and, indeed, quite abject and distressing one: what we might call, by way of eminence, the dismal science.

1849

★ 5.2

Experience is the best of schoolmasters, only the school fees are heavy.

1828

★ 3.7

Cash Payment has become the sole nexus of man to men!

Chartism · 1840

★ 3.7

Fire is the best of servants; but what a master!

Past and Present · 1843

★ 3.7

The three great elements of modern civilisation, Gunpowder, Printing and the Protestant Religion.

1827

★ 3.6

Man is a Tool-using Animal...without Tools he is nothing, with Tools he is all.

1834

★ 3.6

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Sir Walter Scott · 1838

★ 3.6

If Jesus Christ were to come to-day, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it.

1881

★ 3.5

Essay · Historical literature

History is the essence of innumerable Biographies.

1830

★ 2.0

Historical literature

O poor mortals, how ye make this Earth bitter for each other.

The French Revolution: A History · 1837

★ 2.0

The true university of these days is a collection of books.

On Heroes · 1840

★ 2.0

One life; a little gleam of time between two eternities.

1840

★ 2.0

The great law of culture is: Let each become all that he was created capable of being.

1827

★ 1.9

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.

1838

★ 1.9

All work, even cotton-spinning, is noble; work is alone noble... a life of ease is not for any man, nor for any god.

Past and Present · 1843

★ 1.9

There is always hope in a man that actually and earnestly works; in Idleness alone is there perpetual despair.

1843

★ 1.9

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