Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
He is wise who can instruct us and assist us in the business of virtuous living. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Democracy is, by the nature of it, a self-cancelling business: and gives in the long run a net result of zero — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Our grand business undoubtedly is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows. The greatest of faults, I should say is to be… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Rest is a fine medicine. Let your stomachs rest, ye dyspeptics; let your brain rest, you wearied and worried people of business;… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
“It is a thing forever changing, this of Hero-worship: different in each age, difficult to do well in any age. Indeed, the… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Consider in fact, a body of six hundred and fifty-eight miscellaneous persons, set to consult about "business," with twenty-seven millions, mostly fools,… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
“Great men taken up in any way are profitable company. We cannot look, however imperfectly, upon a great man without gaining something… — 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
