Thomas Carlyle: Frases em inglês

Frases em inglês.
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“Music is well said to be the speech of angels.”

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Thomas Carlyle

The Opera (1852).
1820s, Critical and Miscellaneous Essays (1827–1855)

“The lies (Western slander) which well-meaning zeal has heaped round this man (Muhammad) are disgraceful to ourselves only.”

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Fonte: On Heroes, Hero Worship and the Heroic in History

“The Book had in a high degree excited us to self-activity, which is the best effect of any book.”

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Bk. I, ch. 4.
1830s, Sartor Resartus (1833–1834)

“The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.”

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1840s, Heroes and Hero-Worship (1840), The Hero as Prophet

“Our grand business undoubtedly is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.”

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1820s, Signs of the Times (1829)

“The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak becomes a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.”

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“Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.”

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“Have a purpose in life, and having it, throw into your work such strength of mind and muscle as God has given you.”

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“In a controversy, the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.”

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“The true University of these days is a Collection of Books.”

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1840s, Heroes and Hero-Worship (1840), The Hero as Man of Letters
Fonte: On Heroes, Hero Worship and the Heroic in History

“Considered as the last finish of education, or of human culture, worth and acquirement, the art of speech is noble, and even divine; it is like the kindling of a Heaven's light to show us what a glorious world exists, and has perfected itself, in a man.”

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1850s, Latter-Day Pamphlets (1850), Stump Orator (May 1, 1850)

“it is a most important social act; nay, at bottom, the one important social act. Given the men a People choose, the People itself, in its exact worth and worthlessness, is given. A heroic people chooses heroes, and is happy; a valet or flunkey people chooses sham-heroes, what are called quacks, thinking them heroes, and is not happy.”

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1840s, Past and Present (1843)