Ernest Hemingway vs. Thomas Carlyle
Read 20 entries attributed to Ernest Hemingway alongside 20 attributed to Thomas Carlyle. Compare the wording and topic labels.
This page places 20 entries attributed to Ernest Hemingway alongside 20 attributed to Thomas Carlyle. Each selection is ordered by stored importance score. These are selections from QuoteLineage, not complete accounts of either author's work.
Topic labels present in both displayed selections: books, knowledge, life, time, writing. Shared labels do not by themselves demonstrate agreement, disagreement, or influence between the authors.
Attributed to Ernest Hemingway, entry #1194: "Oh Jake," Brett said, "We could have had such a damned good time together."Ahead was a mounted policeman in khaki directing traffic. He raised his baton. The car slowed suddenly, …"
Attributed to Thomas Carlyle, entry #111361: "Misery which, through long ages, had no spokesman, no helper, will now be its own helper and speak for itself."
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Ernest Hemingway
1899 – 1961
Ernest Miller Hemingway was an American novelist, short-story writer and journalist. Known for an economical, understated style that influenced later 20th-century writers, he has been romanticized for his adventurous lifestyle and outspoken, blunt public image. Some of his seven novels, six short-story collections and two non-fiction works have become classics of American literature, and he was awarded the 1954 Nobel Prize in Literature.
"Oh Jake," Brett said, "We could have had such a damned good time together."Ahead was a mounted policeman in khaki directing traffic. He raised his baton. The…"
#love"Maybe...you'll fall in love with me all over again.""Hell," I said, "I love you enough now. What do you want to do? Ruin me?""Yes. I want to ruin you.""Good,…"
#love"Never fall in love?""Always," said the count. "I am always in love."
#love"If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it."
#love"When you love you wish to do things for. You wish to sacrifice for. You wish to serve."
#love"Easy writing makes hard reading."
#books"This looking and not seeing things was a great sin, I thought, and one that was easy to fall into. It was always the beginning of something bad and I thought…"
#mind"All things truly wicked start from an innocence."
#art"It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and can coast down them. ... Thus you remember …"
#knowledge"All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time."
#life"Write me at the Hotel Quintana, Pamplona, Spain. Or don't you like to write letters. I do because it's such a swell way to keep from working and yet feel you…"
#work"Hemingway's Gravesite"
#death"The only thing that could spoil a day was people.... People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself."
#time"The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shock-proof, shit detector. This is the writer's radar and all great writers have had it."
#writing"SparkNotes of The Old Man And The Sea"
#music"Grace under pressure."
#literature"Don't you drink? I notice you speak slightingly of the bottle. I have drunk since I was fifteen and few things have given me more pleasure. When you work har…"
#time"If a writer of prose knows enough about what he is writing about he may omit things that he knows, and the reader, if the writer is writing truly enough, wil…"
#writing"His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he…"
#life"Dying was nothing and he had no picture of it nor fear of it in his mind. But living was a field of grain blowing in the wind on the side of a hill. Living w…"
#deathThomas Carlyle
1795 – 1881
Thomas Carlyle was a Scottish essayist, historian and philosopher. Known as the "sage of Chelsea", his writings strongly influenced the intellectual and artistic culture of the Victorian era.
"Misery which, through long ages, had no spokesman, no helper, will now be its own helper and speak for itself."
#suffering"Religion was the pole-star for my father. Rude and uncultivated as he otherwise was, it made him and kept him "in all points a man." Oh! when I think that al…"
#knowledge"The work we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully."
#life"I esteem the modern error, That all goes by self-interest and the checking and balancing of greedy knaveries, and that in short, there is nothing divine what…"
#truth"Burke said there were Three Estates in Parliament; but, in the Reporter's Gallery yonder, there sat a Fourth Estate more important far than they all."
#politics"The panting breathless haste and vehemence of a man struggling in the thick of battle for life and salvation; this is the mood he is in!"
#life"This Burns appeared under every disadvantage: uninstructed, poor, born only to hard manual toil; and writing, when it came to that, in a rustic special diale…"
#writing"Henry of Essex's religion was the Inner Light or Moral Conscience of his own soul; such as is vouchsafed still to all souls of men;—which Inner Light shone h…"
#religion"The Soldier is perhaps one of the most difficult things to realise; but Governments, had they not realised him, could not have existed: accordingly he is here."
#life"I called it a small light shining and shaping in the huge vortex of Norse darkness. Yet the darkness itself was alive; consider that. It was the eager inarti…"
#life"The all of things is an infinite conjugation of the verb to do."
"Oceans of horse-hair, continents of parchment, and learned-sergeant eloquence, were it continued till the learned tongue wore itself small in the indefatigab…"
#knowledge"Men do reverence men. Men do worship in that 'one temple of the world,' as Novalis calls it, the Presence of a Man! Hero- worship, true and blessed, or else …"
#religion"An intellectual dapperling of these times boasts chiefly of his irresistible perspicacity, his “dwelling in the daylight of truth,” and so forth; which, on e…"
#time"O reader, to what shifts is poor Society reduced, struggling to give still some account of herself, in epochs when Cash Payment has become the sole nexus of …"
#books"For the Scepticism, as I said, is not intellectual only; it is moral also; a chronic atrophy and disease of the whole soul. A man lives by believing somethin…"
#knowledge"There is endless merit in a man's knowing when to have done."
#knowledge"Nay, am not I also the humble James Carlyle's work? I owe him much more than existence, I owe him a noble inspiring example . It was he exclusively that dete…"
#life"it is our fatalest misery just now, not easily alterable, and yet urgently requiring to be altered, That no British man can attain to be a Statesman, or Chie…"
#justice": A man lives by believing something; not by debating and arguing about many things."
#truth