To each is given a certain inward talent, a certain outward environment or fortune; to each by wisest combination of these two,… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Laws, written, if not on stone tables, yet on the azure of infinitude, in the inner heart of God's creation, certain as… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
No person was every rightly understood until they had been first regarded with a certain feeling, not of tolerance, but of sympathy. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Wonderful Force of Public Opinion! We must act and walk in all points as it prescribes; follow the traffic it bids us,… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
In no time whatever can small critics entirely eradicate out of living men's hearts a certain altogether peculiar collar reverence for Great… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
No good book or good thing of any kind shows it best face at first. No the most common quality of in… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
But the whim we have of happiness is somewhat thus. By certain valuations, and averages, of our own striking, we come upon… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The fine arts once divorcing themselves from truth are quite certain to fall mad, if they do not die. — 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
