# Thomas Carlyle

- Quotes: 42
- Author page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-carlyle

## Books

- [Sartor Resartus](https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-carlyle/sartor-resartus.md) — 26 quotes
- [The French Revolution](https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-carlyle/the-french-revolution.md) — 16 quotes

## Recently added quotes

> He that has a secret should not only hide it, but hide that he has it to hide.

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> 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.

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> History a distillation of Rumour.

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> Do nothing, only keep agitating, debating; and things will destroy themselves.

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> 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?

p. 327 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-carlyle/the-french-revolution/there-are-depths.md)

> The difference between Orthodoxy or Mydoxy and Heterodoxy or Thy-doxy.

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> France was long a despotism tempered by epigrams.

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> O poor mortals, how ye make this earth bitter for each other.

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> To a shower of gold most things are penetrable.

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> 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.

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> Misery which, through long ages, had no spokesman, no helper, will now be its own helper and speak for itself.

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> A whiff of grapeshot.

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