~ Thomas Carlyle Quotes ~

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Burke said there were three Estates in Parliament; but in the reporters' gallery yonder there sat a fourth Estate more important than them all.

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Time is the silent never-resting thing ... rolling rushing on swift silent like an all-embracing oceantide on which we and all the universe swim.

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Burke said there were Three Estates in Parliament; but in the Reporters' gallery yonder there sat a Fourth Estate more important far than they all.

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

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Today is not yesterday; how can our works and thoughts if they are always to be the fittest continue always the same? Change indeed is painful yet ever needful.

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Innumerable are the illusions and legerdemain tricks of custom: but of all these perhaps the cleverest is her knack of persuading us that the miraculous by simple repetition ceases to be miraculous.

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Who is there that in logical words can express the effect music has on us? A kind of inarticulate unfathomable speech which leads us to the edge of the Infinite and lets us for moments gaze into that!

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Of all paths a man could strike into there is at any given moment a best path which here and now it were of all things wisest for him to do. To find this path and walk in it is the one thing needful for him.

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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness. He has a work a life-purpose. ... Get your happiness out of your work or you will never know what real happiness is. ... Even in the meanest sorts of labor the whole soul of a man is composed into a kind of real harmony the instant he sets himself to work.