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About Thomas Carlyle
Scottish essayist, historian and philosopher
Thomas Carlyle was a Scottish essayist, historian and philosopher. Known as the "sage of Chelsea", he helped shape the intellectual and artistic life of the Victorian era. His writing carried wide influence in his own time, especially among readers interested in history, ideas, and culture. He is remembered for a body of work that marked him as a major public thinker of the nineteenth century.
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- “No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.”Thomas Carlyle
- “If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated readings deserves to be read at all.”Thomas Carlyle
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- “It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.”Thomas Carlyle
History: more sayings
- “From William of Orange to William Pitt the younger there was but one man without whom English history must ha…”Albert Bushnell Hart
- “I subscribe to William Faulkner's' view that history is not just about what we were before but who we are now.”Ken Burns
- “A continuing narrative throughout Australia's history that says it is better to build up than to tear down -…”Kevin Rudd
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Books by Thomas Carlyle
Sartor resartus
2002
The French Revolution
2002