Thomas Carlyle Quotes

The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.

- Thomas Carlyle

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A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things. - Thomas Carlyle

We have our little theory on all human and divine things. Poetry, the workings of genius itself, which, in all times, with one or another meaning, has been called Inspiration, and held to be mysterious and inscrutable, is no longer without its scientific exposition. The building of the lofty rhyme is like any other masonry or bricklaying: we have theories of its rise, height, decline and fall -- which latter, it would seem, is now near, among all people. - Thomas Carlyle