When I gaze into the stars, they look down upon me with pity from their serene and silent spaces, like eyes glistening… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Clean undeniable right, clear undeniable might: either of these once ascertained puts an end to battle. All battle is a confused experiment… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Cherish what is dearest while you have it near you, and wait not till it is far away. Blind and deaf that… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
To say that we have a clear conscience is to utter a solecism; had we never sinned we should have had no… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
A very sea of thought; neither calm nor clear, if you will, yet wherein the toughest pearl-diver may dive to his utmost… — 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
A person with a clear purpose will make progress, even on the roughest road. A person with no purpose will make no… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Without oblivion, there is no remembrance possible. When both oblivion and memory are wise, when the general soul of man is clear,… — 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
