Thomas Carlyle

I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

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If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation? ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#eloquent #horrid #kind #more #object

If there be no enemy there's no fight. If no fight, no victory and if no victory there is no crown. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#enemy #fight #victory

Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

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In books lies the soul of the whole past time. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#lies #past #past time #soul #time

Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#man #sum #sum total #total #wretchedness

It is a strange trade that of advocacy. Your intellect, your highest heavenly gift is hung up in the shop window like a loaded pistol for sale. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#gift #heavenly #highest #hung #intellect

Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#confined #human #human species #laughter #privileges

Let each become all that he was created capable of being. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#being #capable #created #each

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#common #delirium #love #love is #many