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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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- “If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.”Thomas Carlyle
Silence: more sayings
- “When two souls are one, they hear each other, even in silence.”Matshona Dhliwayo
- “A pine tree standeth lonelyIn the North on an upland bare;It standeth whitely shroudedWith snow, and sleepeth…”Heinrich Heine
- “I didn't know what to think, but what I felt was magnetic and so big it ached like the moon had entered my ch…”Sue Monk Kidd
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Books by Thomas Carlyle
Sartor resartus
2002
The French Revolution
2002