Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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The purpose of man is in action not thought. ~Thomas Carlyle - Purpose
Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand. ~Thomas Carlyle - Action
It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe. ~Thomas Carlyle - Vocation
No man sees far, most see no farther than their noses. ~Thomas Carlyle - Vision
Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man ~Thomas Carlyle - Laughter
Society is founded upon cloth. ~Thomas Carlyle - Fashion
Not what I have, but what I do is my kingdom. ~Thomas Carlyle - Materialism
The cut of a garment speaks of intellect and talent and the color of temperament and heart. ~Thomas Carlyle - Temperament
What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is the collection of books. ~Thomas Carlyle - Books and Reading
No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad. ~Thomas Carlyle - Laughter
No good book or good thing of any kind shows it best face at first. No the most common quality of in a true work of art that has excellence and depth, is that at first sight it produces a certain disappointment. ~Thomas Carlyle - Quality
If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation? ~Thomas Carlyle - Speakers and Speaking
Even in the meanest sorts of labor, the whole soul of a man is composed into a kind of real harmony the instant he sets himself to work. ~Thomas Carlyle - Labor
The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall. ~Thomas Carlyle - Invention and Inventor
Not our logical faculty, but our imaginative one is king over us. I might say, priest and prophet to lead us to heaven-ward, or magician and wizard to lead us hellward. ~Thomas Carlyle - Imagination
True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper. ~Thomas Carlyle - Humor
It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics. ~Thomas Carlyle - Politicians and Politics
Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding. ~Thomas Carlyle - Imagination
The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against unbelief. ~Thomas Carlyle - Belief
Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone. ~Thomas Carlyle - Doubt
The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest. ~Thomas Carlyle - Action
Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what clearly lies at hand. ~Thomas Carlyle - Present
The past is all holy to us; the dead are all holy; even they that were wicked when alive. ~Thomas Carlyle - Past
Work alone is noble. ~Thomas Carlyle - Work
Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man. ~Thomas Carlyle - Virtue
One is hardly sensible of fatigue while he marches to music. ~Thomas Carlyle - Music
The king is the man who can. ~Thomas Carlyle - Ability
Man is emphatically a proselytizing creature. ~Thomas Carlyle - Humankind
Reality, if rightly interpreted, is grander than fiction. ~Thomas Carlyle - Reality
The devil has his elect. ~Thomas Carlyle - Devil
It is not a lucky word, this name ''impossible''; no good comes of those who have it so often in their mouths. ~Thomas Carlyle - Impossibility
The depth of our despair measures what capability and height of claim we have to hope. ~Thomas Carlyle - Despair
Clever men are good, but they are not the best. ~Thomas Carlyle - Cleverness
To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes. ~Thomas Carlyle - Faith
The greatest event for the world is the arrival of a new and wise person. ~Thomas Carlyle - Wisdom
Men's hearts ought not to be set against one another, but set with one another, and all against evil only. ~Thomas Carlyle - Unity
One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO. ~Thomas Carlyle - Certainty
The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change. ~Thomas Carlyle - Change
To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself. ~Thomas Carlyle - Reform
Variety is the condition of harmony. ~Thomas Carlyle - Variety
The whole past is the procession of the present. ~Thomas Carlyle - History and Historians
Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time. ~Thomas Carlyle - Silence
Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope. ~Thomas Carlyle - Change
Let one who wants to move and convince others, first be convinced and moved themselves. If a person speaks with genuine earnestness the thoughts, the emotion and the actual condition of their own heart, others will listen because we all are knit together by the tie of sympathy. ~Thomas Carlyle - Persuasion
The fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself. ~Thomas Carlyle - Doubt
Action hangs, as it were, ''dissolved'' in speech, in thoughts whereof speech is the shadow; and precipitates itself therefrom. The kind of speech in a man betokens the kind of action you will get from him. ~Thomas Carlyle - Action
Pin your faith to no ones sleeves, haven't you two eyes of your own. ~Thomas Carlyle - Individuality
The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better. ~Thomas Carlyle - Churches
Every noble work is at first impossible. ~Thomas Carlyle - Work
The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully. ~Thomas Carlyle - Courage
Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains. ~Thomas Carlyle - Genius
Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct. ~Thomas Carlyle - Belief
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 - Literary Criticism
Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes. ~Thomas Carlyle - Youth
The greatest of all faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none. ~Thomas Carlyle - Faults
The person who cannot laugh is not only ready for treason, and deceptions, their whole life is already a treason and deception. ~Thomas Carlyle - Laughter
No violent extreme endures. ~Thomas Carlyle - Extremes and Extremists
The best effect of any book, is that it excites the reader to self-activity. ~Thomas Carlyle - Books and Reading
There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write. ~Thomas Carlyle - Literature
Cash-payment never was, or could except for a few years be, the union-bond of man to man. Cash never yet paid one man fully his deserts to another; nor could it, nor can it, now or henceforth to the end of the world. ~Thomas Carlyle - Money
No sadder proof can be given of a person's own tiny stature, than their disbelief in great people. ~Thomas Carlyle - Critics and Criticism
A man cannot make a pair of shoes rightly unless he do it in a devout manner. ~Thomas Carlyle - Crafts
If the cut of the costume indicates intellect and talent, then the color indicates temper and heart. ~Thomas Carlyle - Fashion
Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time. ~Thomas Carlyle - Silence
Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity. ~Thomas Carlyle - Adversity
Stern accuracy in inquiring, bold imagination in describing, these are the cogs on which history soars or flutters and wobbles. ~Thomas Carlyle - History and Historians
Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious. ~Thomas Carlyle - Mystery
The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done. ~Thomas Carlyle - Happiness
The condition of the most passionate enthusiast is to be preferred over the individual who, because of the fear of making a mistake, won't in the end affirm or deny anything. ~Thomas Carlyle - Enthusiasm
It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five. ~Thomas Carlyle - Students
Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight. ~Thomas Carlyle - Insights
In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government. ~Thomas Carlyle - Government
Painful for a person is rebellious independence, only in loving companionship with his associates does a person feel safe: Only in reverently bowing down before the higher does a person feel exalted. ~Thomas Carlyle - Humility
History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion. ~Thomas Carlyle - Solitude
If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated reading deserves to be read at all. ~Thomas Carlyle - Time and Time Management
A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man. ~Thomas Carlyle - Work
The illimitable, silent, never-resting thing called Time, rolling, rushing on, swift, silent, like an all-embracing ocean-tide, on which we and all the universe swim like exhalations, like apparitions which are, and then are not: this is forever very literally a miracle; a thing to strike us dumb, for we have no word to speak about it. ~Thomas Carlyle - Time and Time Management
The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then. ~Thomas Carlyle - Fear
There are but two ways of paying debt: Increase of industry in raising income, increase of thrift in laying out. ~Thomas Carlyle - Debt
The heart always sees before than the head can see. ~Thomas Carlyle - Heart
Wonderful ''Force of Public Opinion!'' We must act and walk in all points as it prescribes; follow the traffic it bids us, realize the sum of money, the degree of ''influence'' it expects of us, or we shall be lightly esteemed; certain mouthfuls of articulate wind will be blown at us, and this what mortal courage can front? ~Thomas Carlyle - Public Opinion
Conclusive facts are inseparable from inconclusive except by a head that already understands and knows. ~Thomas Carlyle - Facts
All men, if they work not as in the great taskmaster's eye, will work wrong, and work unhappily for themselves and for you. ~Thomas Carlyle - Responsibility
A person usually has two reasons for doing something: a good reason and the real reason. ~Thomas Carlyle - Reason
Real good breeding, as the people have it here, is one of the finest things now going in the world. The careful avoidance of all discussion, the swift hopping from topic to topic, does not agree with me; but the graceful style they do it with is beyond that of minuets! ~Thomas Carlyle - Upper Class
I call the book of Job, apart from all theories about it, one of the grandest things ever written with the pen. ~Thomas Carlyle - Bible
A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things. ~Thomas Carlyle - Argument
History is the distillation of rumor. ~Thomas Carlyle - History and Historians
Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world. ~Thomas Carlyle - Honesty
No age seemed the age of romance to itself. ~Thomas Carlyle - Romance and Romanticism
Show me the person you honor, for I know better by that the kind of person you are. For you show me what your idea of humanity is. ~Thomas Carlyle - Association
Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness. ~Thomas Carlyle - Writers and Writing
The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever. ~Thomas Carlyle - Age and Aging
Thought is the parent of the deed. ~Thomas Carlyle - Thoughts and Thinking
No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence. ~Thomas Carlyle - Action
The spiritual is the parent of the practical. ~Thomas Carlyle - Spirit and Spirituality
Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die. ~Thomas Carlyle - Goodness
For the ''superior morality,'' of which we hear so much, we too would desire to be thankful: at the same time, it were but blindness to deny that this ''superior morality'' is properly rather an ''inferior criminality,'' produced not by greater love of Virtue, but by greater perfection of Police; and of that far subtler and stronger Police, called Public Opinion. ~Thomas Carlyle - Morality
Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether. ~Thomas Carlyle - Advice
Man's unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite. ~Thomas Carlyle - Unhappiness
When we can drain the Ocean into mill-ponds, and bottle up the Force of Gravity, to be sold by retail, in gas jars; then may we hope to comprehend the infinitudes of man's soul under formulas of Profit and Loss; and rule over this too, as over a patent engine, by checks, and valves, and balances. ~Thomas Carlyle - Technology
It is the unseen and the spiritual in people that determines the outward and the actual. ~Thomas Carlyle - Behavior
No conquest can ever become permanent which does not show itself beneficial to the conquered as well as to the conquerors. ~Thomas Carlyle - Victory
In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment. ~Thomas Carlyle - Beginning
The soul gives unity to what it looks at with love. ~Thomas Carlyle - Soul
Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world. ~Thomas Carlyle - Popularity
If a book comes from the heart it will contrive to reach other hearts. All art and author craft are of small account to that. ~Thomas Carlyle - Books and Reading
After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books. ~Thomas Carlyle - Books and Reading
Thought once awakened does not again slumber; unfolds itself into a System of Thought; grows, in man after man, generation after generation, --till its full stature is reached, and such System of Thought can grow no farther, but must give place to another. ~Thomas Carlyle - Thoughts and Thinking
The archenemy is the arch stupid! ~Thomas Carlyle - Conflict
The eternal stars shine out as soon as it is dark enough. ~Thomas Carlyle - Difficulties
The actual well seen is ideal. ~Thomas Carlyle - Ideals and Idealism
The world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was. ~Thomas Carlyle - Mediocrity
A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun. ~Thomas Carlyle - Unemployment
Little other than a red tape Talking-machine, and unhappy Bag of Parliamentary Eloquence. ~Thomas Carlyle - Politicians and Politics
If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else. ~Thomas Carlyle - Motivation
Oh, give us the man who sings at his work. ~Thomas Carlyle - Cheerfulness
No person was every rightly understood until they had been first regarded with a certain feeling, not of tolerance, but of sympathy. ~Thomas Carlyle - Understanding
All evil is like a nightmare; the instant you stir under it, the evil is gone. ~Thomas Carlyle - Evil
The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak becomes a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong. ~Thomas Carlyle - Decisions
There is often more spiritual force in a proverb than in whole philosophical systems. ~Thomas Carlyle - Proverbs
When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze. ~Thomas Carlyle - Silence
The true university of these days is a collection of books. ~Thomas Carlyle - Libraries
Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid. ~Thomas Carlyle - Action
The dust of controversy is merely the falsehood flying off. ~Thomas Carlyle - Controversy
Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer. ~Thomas Carlyle - Duty
The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. ~Thomas Carlyle - Sincerity
The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self. ~Thomas Carlyle - Belief
Cash-payment is not the sole nexus of man with man. ~Thomas Carlyle - Payment
Heroism is the divine relation which, in all times, unites a great man to other men. ~Thomas Carlyle - Heroes and Heroism
Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation. ~Thomas Carlyle - Reform
Music is well said to be the speech of angels; in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine. It brings us near to the infinite. ~Thomas Carlyle - Music
Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than gracefully insists on its own rights. ~Thomas Carlyle - Upbringing
But the whim we have of happiness is somewhat thus. By certain valuations, and averages, of our own striking, we come upon some sort of average terrestrial lot; this we fancy belongs to us by nature, and of indefeasible rights. It is simple payment of our wages, of our deserts; requires neither thanks nor complaint. Foolish soul! What act of legislature was there that thou shouldst be happy? A little while ago thou hadst no right to be at all. ~Thomas Carlyle - Happiness
Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do. ~Thomas Carlyle - Action
Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere. ~Thomas Carlyle - Perfection
In private life I never knew anyone interfere with other people's disputes but he heartily repented of it. ~Thomas Carlyle - Life and Living
In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves. ~Thomas Carlyle - Anger
Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world. ~Thomas Carlyle - Persuasion
The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious. ~Thomas Carlyle - Greatness
A fair day's wages for a fair day's work. ~Thomas Carlyle - Wages
If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music. ~Thomas Carlyle - Music
Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects. ~Thomas Carlyle - Eyes
Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death. ~Thomas Carlyle - Judgment and Judges
Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacle s, discouragement s, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak. ~Thomas Carlyle - Perseverance
If those gentlemen would let me alone I should be much obliged to them. I would say, as Shakespeare would say... ''Sweet Friend, for Jesus sake forbear.'' ~Thomas Carlyle - Biography
Our life is not really a mutual helpfulness; but rather, it's fair competition cloaked under due laws of war; it's a mutual hostility. ~Thomas Carlyle - Competition
Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil; for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it. ~Thomas Carlyle - Sarcasm
Worship is transcendent wonder. ~Thomas Carlyle - Worship
Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts. ~Thomas Carlyle - Speech
For man is not the creature and product of Mechanism; but, in a far truer sense, its creator and producer. ~Thomas Carlyle - Machinery
For suffering and enduring there is no remedy, but striving and doing. ~Thomas Carlyle - Suffering
The hell of these days is the fear of not getting along, especially of not making money. ~Thomas Carlyle - Hell
A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus. ~Thomas Carlyle - Focus
What are your historical Facts; still more your biographical? Wilt thou know a man by stringing-together beadrolls of what thou namest Facts? ~Thomas Carlyle - Facts
Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries. ~Thomas Carlyle - Egotism
A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one. ~Thomas Carlyle - Biography
If there be no enemy there's no fight. If no fight, no victory and if no victory there is no crown. ~Thomas Carlyle - Enemies
We were wise indeed, could we discern truly the signs of our own time; and by knowledge of its wants and advantages, wisely adjust our own position in it. Let us, instead of gazing idly into the obscure distance, look calmly around us, for a little, on the perplexed scene where we stand. Perhaps, on a more serious inspection, something of its perplexity will disappear, some of its distinctive characters and deeper tendencies more clearly reveal themselves; whereby our own relations to it, our own true aims and endeavors in it, may also become clearer. ~Thomas Carlyle - Present
The man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder -- waif, a nothing, a no man. Have a purpose in life, and, having it, throw such strength of mind and muscle into your work as God has given you. ~Thomas Carlyle - Purpose
No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men. ~Thomas Carlyle - Greatness
I don't pretend to understand the Universe -- it's a great deal bigger than I am. ~Thomas Carlyle - Universe
The first sin in our universe was Lucifer's self conceit. ~Thomas Carlyle - Sin
Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of a man you are. It shows me what your ideal of manhood is, and what kind of a man you long to be. ~Thomas Carlyle - Character
Life is a little gleam of time between two eternity s. ~Thomas Carlyle - Life and Living
Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us. ~Thomas Carlyle - Age and Aging
It is a strange trade that of advocacy. Your intellect, your highest heavenly gift is hung up in the shop window like a loaded pistol for sale. ~Thomas Carlyle - Influence
I grow daily to honor facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing -- a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil. ~Thomas Carlyle - Facts
Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such; it is an accident, not a property of man. ~Thomas Carlyle - Fame
A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder. ~Thomas Carlyle - Goals
Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance -- the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it ;better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen. ~Thomas Carlyle - Cheerfulness
What you see, but can't see over is as good as infinite. ~Thomas Carlyle - Ability
Silence is more eloquent than words. ~Thomas Carlyle - Silence
Ill-health, of body or of mind, is defeat. Health alone is victory. Let all men, if they can manage it, contrive to be healthy! ~Thomas Carlyle - Health
Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man. ~Thomas Carlyle - Loneliness
Skepticism, 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 something; not by debating and arguing about many things. A sad case for him when all that he can manage to believe is something he can button in his pocket, and with one or the other organ eat and digest! Lower than that he will not get. ~Thomas Carlyle - Skepticism
No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve. ~Thomas Carlyle - Belief
No sooner is your ocean filled, than he grumbles that it might have been of better vintage. Try him with half of a Universe, of an Omnipotence, he sets to quarrelling with the proprietor of the other half, and declares himself the most maltreated of men. Always there is a black spot in our sunshine: it is even as I said, the Shadow of Ourselves. ~Thomas Carlyle - Dissatisfaction
In a symbol there is concealment and yet revelation: here therefore, by silence and by speech acting together, comes a double significance. In the symbol proper, what we can call a symbol, there is ever, more or less distinctly and directly, some embodiment and revelation of the Infinite; the Infinite is made to blend itself with the Finite, to stand visible, and as it were, attainable there. By symbols, accordingly, is man guided and commanded, made happy, made wretched. ~Thomas Carlyle - Symbols
History is the essence of innumerable biographies. ~Thomas Carlyle - Biography
Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong. ~Thomas Carlyle - Science and Scientists
Our works are the mirror wherein the spirit first sees its natural lineaments, Hence, too, the folly of that impossible precept, Know thyself; till it be translated into this partially possible one, know what thou canst work at. ~Thomas Carlyle - Work
The history of the world is but the biography of great men. ~Thomas Carlyle - History and Historians
Not on morality, but on cookery, let us build our stronghold: there brandishing our frying-pan, as censer, let us offer sweet incense to the Devil, and live at ease on the fat things he has provided for his elect! ~Thomas Carlyle - Cooking
By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears. ~Thomas Carlyle - Change
Great men are the commissioned guides of mankind, who rule their fellows because they are wiser. ~Thomas Carlyle - Wisdom
No sooner does a great man depart, and leave his character as public property, than a crowd of little men rushes towards it. There they are gathered together, blinking up to it with such vision as they have, scanning it from afar, hovering round it this way and that, each cunningly endeavoring, by all arts, to catch some reflex of it in the little mirror of himself. ~Thomas Carlyle - Biography
Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith. ~Thomas Carlyle - Love
I have seen gleams in the face and eyes of the man that have let you look into a higher country. ~Thomas Carlyle - Vision
Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all. ~Thomas Carlyle - Tools
Let each become all that he was created capable of being. ~Thomas Carlyle - Excellence
The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist. ~Thomas Carlyle - Sentiment
For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad. ~Thomas Carlyle - Judgment and Judges
No ghost was every seen by two pair of eyes. ~Thomas Carlyle - Spirit and Spirituality
Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one. ~Thomas Carlyle - Opinions
He that can work is born to be king of something. ~Thomas Carlyle - Kings
Wonder is the basis of worship. ~Thomas Carlyle - Wonder
If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded. ~Thomas Carlyle - Success
Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none. ~Thomas Carlyle - Repentance
Song is the heroics of speech. ~Thomas Carlyle - Music
Only the person of worth can recognize the worth in others. ~Thomas Carlyle - Potential
We call it a Society; and go about professing openly the totalest separation, isolation. Our life is not a mutual helpfulness; but rather, cloaked under due laws-of-war, named ''fair competition'' and so forth, it is a mutual hostility. ~Thomas Carlyle - Society
Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being. ~Thomas Carlyle - Potential
The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion. ~Thomas Carlyle - Civilization
Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves. ~Thomas Carlyle - Silence
Men are to be guided only by their self-interests. Good government is a good balancing of these; and, except a keen eye and appetite for self-interest, requires no virtue in any quarter. To both parties it is emphatically a machine: to the discontented, a ''taxing-machine;'' to the contented, a ''machine for securing property.'' Its duties and its faults are not those of a father, but of an active parish-constable. ~Thomas Carlyle - Government
The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss. ~Thomas Carlyle - Life and Living
All great peoples are conservative. ~Thomas Carlyle - Conservatives
Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so. ~Thomas Carlyle - Leaders and Leadership
Speech is of time, silence is of eternity. ~Thomas Carlyle - Silence
A person with half volition goes backwards and forwards, but makes no progress on even the smoothest of roads. ~Thomas Carlyle - Commitment
I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. ~Thomas Carlyle - Ignorance
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