At the bottom there is no perfect history; there is none such conceivable. All past centuries have rotted down, and gone confusedly… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
No man at bottom means injustice; it is always for some obscure distorted image of a right that he contends: an obscure… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Universal history, the history of what man has accomplished in this world, is at bottom the History of the Great Men who… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Let a man try faithfully, manfully to be right, he will daily grow more and more right. It is at the bottom… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Neither let mistakes and wrong directions - of which every man, in his studies and elsewhere, falls into many - discourage you.… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Let a man try faithfully, manfully to be right; he will grow daily more and more right. It is at bottom the… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Hero-worship is the deepest root of all; the tap-root, from which in a great degree all the rest were nourished and grown… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
There is no heroic poem in the world but is at bottom a biography, the life of a man. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
They have their belief, these poor Tibet people, that Providence sends down always an Incarnation of Himself into every generation. At bottom… — 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
