A man ought to inquire and find out what he really and truly has an appetite for; what suits his constitution; and… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
“My books are friends that never fail me." ( Letter to his mother, Margaret A. Carlyle ; 17 March 1817)” — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
“Literature, so far as it is Literature, is an ‘apocalypse of Nature,’ a revealing of the ‘open secret.” — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
O thou who art able to write a Book, which once in the two centuries or oftener there is a man gifted… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
If a book comes from the heart, it will contrive to reach other hearts; all art and author-craft are of small amount… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The wise man is but a clever infant, spelling letters from a hieroglyphical prophetic book, the lexicon of which lies in eternity. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self activity. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
I call the book of Job, apart from all theories about it, one of the grandest things ever written with the pen. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
“All that Mankind has done, thought, gained or been is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of Books. They are… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
I call that [Book of Job], apart from all theories about it, one of the grandest things ever written with pen. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
No good book, or good thing of any sort, shows its best face at first. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Learn to be good readers, which is perhaps a more difficult thing than you imagine. Learn to be discriminative in your reading;… — 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 Image
No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
All human things do require to have an ideal in them; to have some soul in them. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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