Done Quotes by Thomas Carlyle

There is endless merit in a man's knowing when to have done.

— Thomas Carlyle

If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.

— Thomas Carlyle

He that has done nothing has known nothing.

— Thomas Carlyle

Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.

— Thomas Carlyle

The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.

— Thomas Carlyle

After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books.

— Thomas Carlyle

A force as of madness in the hands of reason has done all that was ever done in the world.

— Thomas Carlyle

The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.

— Thomas Carlyle

A poor creature who has said or done nothing worth a serious man taking the trouble of remembering.

— Thomas Carlyle

A mind that has seen, and suffered, and done, speaks to us of what it has tried and conquered.

— Thomas Carlyle

One of the Godlike things of this world is the veneration done to human worth by the hearts of men.

— Thomas Carlyle

Science has done much for us; but it is a poor science that would hide from us the great deep sacred infinitude…

— Thomas Carlyle

The most unhappy of all men is the man who cannot tell what he is going to do, who has got no…

— Thomas Carlyle

Why multiply instances? It is written, the Heavens and the Earth shall fade away like a Vesture; which indeed they are: the…

— Thomas Carlyle

All that a university or final highest school. can do for us is still but what the first school began doing--teach us…

— Thomas Carlyle

If you will believe me, you who are young, yours is the golden season of life. As you have heard it called,…

— Thomas Carlyle

All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.

— Thomas Carlyle

Not only was Thebes built by the music of an Orpheus; but without the music of some inspired Orpheus was no city…

— Thomas Carlyle

In this world there is one godlike thing, the essence of all that was or ever will be of godlike in this…

— Thomas Carlyle

History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.

— Thomas Carlyle

There can be no acting or doing of any kind till it be recognized that there is a thing to be done;…

— Thomas Carlyle