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Thomas Carlyle

Also known as The Sage of Chelsea

Scottish essayist, historian and philosopher (1795–1881)

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Thomas Carlyle was a person recognized in the American Academy Arts Sciences collection. He is associated with the Commons category and gallery for his name, as well as a Creator page on that platform. His works have been referenced by 2,527 other encyclopedia articles.

He authored or is linked to 575 works listed in the Open Library, including *De los héroes, el culto de los héroes y lo heroico en la historia*, *Past and Present*, and *The French Revolution, Volume 2*. Other listed works include volumes of the *Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872*. Crossref lists 5 works, while Europeana Sparql lists 36.

Carlyle was born on 1795-12-04 or 1795-01-01 and died on 1881-02-05 or 1881-01-01. He has 38 listeners and a playcount of 253 on Last.fm. His writings include the statement that speech is human and silence is divine, and he noted that the public is an old woman. He also wrote, "So here hath been dawning Another blue Day."

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Person · Open Library

Works: 575

Top works

De los héroes, el culto de los héroes y lo heroico en la historia
Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I
Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol II
Past and Present
The French Revolution, Volume 2

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Person
Active from: 1795-12-04
Active to: 1881-02-05

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 38
Total plays: 253

via Last.fm · Thomas Carlyle

Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

Analysis of Relative Gene Expression Data Using Real-Time Quantitative PCR and the 2−ΔΔCT Method
· 2001 · cited 163,277x
The PRISMA 2020 statement: an updated guideline for reporting systematic reviews
· 2021 · cited 85,169x
U-Net: Convolutional Networks for Biomedical Image Segmentation
· 2015 · cited 59,975x
STAR: ultrafast universal RNA-seq aligner
· 2012 · cited 51,098x
UCSF Chimera—A visualization system for exploratory research and analysis
· 2004 · cited 44,354x

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Quotes

“Not all his men may sever this,It yields to friends', not monarchs', calls;My whinstone house my castle is— I have my own four walls.”
“The weakest living creature, by concentrating his powers on a single object, can accomplish something. The strongest, by dispensing his over many, may fail to accomplish anything. The drop, by continually falling, bores its passage through the hardest rock. The hasty torrent rushes over it with hideous uproar, and leaves no trace behind.”
“Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.”
“It is now almost my sole rule of life to clear myself of cants and formulas, as of poisonous Nessus shirts.”
“The Public is an old woman. Let her maunder and mumble.”
“So here hath been dawningAnother blue Day:Think wilt thou let itSlip useless away.”

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Works in European collections

36 objects attributed to Thomas Carlyle, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

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Encyclopedic overview

Thomas Carlyle (4 December 1795 – 5 February 1881) was a Scottish essayist, historian and philosopher. Known as the "sage of Chelsea", his writings strongly influenced the intellectual and artistic culture of the Victorian era.

Carlyle was born in Ecclefechan, a village in Dumfriesshire. He attended the University of Edinburgh, where he excelled in mathematics and invented the Carlyle circle. After finishing the arts course he prepared to become a minister in the Burgher Church while working as a schoolmaster. He quit these and several other endeavours before settling on literature, writing for the Edinburgh Encyclopædia and working as a translator. He initially gained prominence in English-language literary circles for his extensive writing on German Romantic literature and philosophy. These themes were explored in his first major work, a semi-autobiographical philosophical novel entitled Sartor Resartus (1833–34).

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Thomas Carlyle