He who would write heroic poems should make his whole life a heroic poem. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
In private life I never knew anyone interfere with other people's disputes but he heartily repented of it. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
If a man was great while living, he becomes tenfold greater when dead. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
This little life has its duties that are great-that are alone great, and that go up to heaven and down to hell. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
It is through symbols that man consciously or unconsciously lives, works and has his being. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
There is no life of a man, faithfully recorded, but is a heroic poem of its sort, rhymed or unrhymed. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
I came hither [Craigenputtoch] solely with the design to simplify my way of life and to secure the independence through which I… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Labor is life: from the inmost heart of the worker rises his God-given force, the sacred celestial life-essence breathed into him by… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The glory of a workman, still more of a master workman, that he does his work well, ought to be his most… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
“A Dandy is a clothes-wearing Man, a Man whose trade, office and existence consists in the wearing of clothes.” — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
It is now almost my sole rule of life to clear myself of cants and formulas, as of poisonous Nessus shirts. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Have a purpose in life, and having it, throw into your work such strength of mind and muscle as God has given… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The person who cannot laugh is not only ready for treason, and deceptions, their whole life is already a treason and deception. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
O thou that pinest in the imprisonment of the Actual, and criest bitterly to the gods for a kingdom wherein to rule and create,… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share
No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share
Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such: it is an accident, not a property, of… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share
Be a pattern to others, and then all will go well; for as a whole city is affected by the licentious passions and vices… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share
The glory of a workman, still more of a master workman, that he does his work well, ought to be his most precious possession;… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share
All human things do require to have an ideal in them; to have some soul in them. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share
Insurrection, never so necessary, is a most sad necessity; and governors who wait for that to instruct them are surely getting into the fatalest… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share
Let Time and Chance combine, combine! Let Time and Chance combine! The fairest love from heaven above, That love of yours was mine, My… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share
Does not every true man feel that he is himself made higher by doing reverence to what is really above him? — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share
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