Thomas Carlyle on Friendship
Browse 5 quotations attributed to Thomas Carlyle, catalogued under friendship, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Thomas Carlyle, entry #14199: "friend!—Will the ballot-box raise the Noblest to the chief place; does any sane man deliberately believe such a thing?"
Attributed to Thomas Carlyle, entry #27919: "A mystic bond of brotherhood makes all men one."
5 Quotes by Thomas Carlyle on Friendship
"friend!—Will the ballot-box raise the Noblest to the chief place; does any sane man deliberately believe such a thing?"
"A mystic bond of brotherhood makes all men one."
"The suffering man ought really 'to consume his own smoke'; there is no good in emitting smoke till you have made it into fire, — which, in the metaphorical sense too, all smoke is capable of becoming!"
"Descend where you will into the lower class, in Town or Country, by what avenue you will, by Factory Inquiries, Agricultural Inquiries, by Revenue Returns, by Mining-Labourer Committees, by opening your own eyes and looking, the same sorrowful result discloses itself: you have to admit that the working body of this rich English Nation has sunk or is fast sinking into a state, to which, all sides of it considered, there was literally never any parallel."
"Mahomet can work no miracles; he often answers impatiently: I can work no miracles. I? "I am a Public Preacher;" appointed to preach this doctrine to all creatures. Yet the world, as we can see, had really from of old been all one great miracle to him. Look over the world, says he; is it not wonderful, the work of Allah; wholly "a sign to you," if your eyes were open!"