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Thomas Carlyle

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Scottish lawyer and "apostle" of the Catholic Apostolic Church

Person · Open Library

Born
1795
Died
1881
Works
847

Top works

  • Life of Friedrich Schiller (1825)
  • Critical and miscellaneous essays
  • Wilhelm Meister's apprenticeship and travels
  • Journal historique de la derniere campagne de l'armée du roi, en 1746
  • Past and present and Chartism

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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

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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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