Thomas Carlyle
Quotes
He that has a secret should not only hide it, but hide that he has it to hide.
No lie you can speak or act but it will come, after longer or shorter circulation, like a Bill drawn on Nature's Reality, and be presented there for payment, — with the answer, No effects.
History a distillation of Rumour.
Do nothing, only keep agitating, debating; and things will destroy themselves.
There are depths in man which go down the length of the lowest Hell, as there are heights which reach the highest Heaven; — for are not both Heaven and Hell made out of him, everlasting Miracle and Mystery that he is?
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The difference between Orthodoxy or Mydoxy and Heterodoxy or Thy-doxy.
France was long a despotism tempered by epigrams.
O poor mortals, how ye make this earth bitter for each other.
To a shower of gold most things are penetrable.
Where this will end? In the Abyss, one may prophecy; whither all Delusions are, at all moments, travelling; where this Delusion has now arrived. For if there be a Faith, from of old, it is this, as we often repeat, that no Lie can live for ever. The very Truth has to change its vesture, from time to time; and be born again. But all Lies have sentence of death written down against them, and Heaven's Chancery itself; and, slowly or fast, advance incessantly towards their hour.
Misery which, through long ages, had no spokesman, no helper, will now be its own helper and speak for itself.
A whiff of grapeshot.
