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Thomas Carlyle
 
Date of birth: 04 December 1795
Date of death: 05 February 1881
Country Of Origin: Scotland
Profession:

Historian

Essayist

Biography:
   Scottish-born British historian and essayist who was leading figure in the Victorian era. Carlyle's collected works (1974) comprises 30 volumes. In the age which put faith in legislation, Carlyle believed in a leader, a hero, whom people must recognize and worship. In his famous work ON HEROES AND HERO WORSHIP (1841) his examples ranged from Mohammed to Shakespeare and Dr. Johnson.

"No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men." (Heroes .... (More...)
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" A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one. "

Thomas Carlyle
" All men, if they work not as in the great taskmaster's eye, will work wrong, and work unhappily for themselves and for you. "

Thomas Carlyle
" Enjoy 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
" Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand. "

Thomas Carlyle
" Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world. "

Thomas Carlyle
" Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts. "

Thomas Carlyle
" That there should one Man die ignorant who had capacity for Knowledge, this I call a tragedy. "

Thomas Carlyle
" The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self-activity. "

Thomas Carlyle
" The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none. "

Thomas Carlyle
" 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. "

Thomas Carlyle
" What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books. "

Thomas Carlyle
" Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness."

Thomas Carlyle
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