Out of Eternity the new day is born; Into Eternity at night will return. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Eternity looks grander and kinder if time grow meaner and more hostile. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
One life; a little gleam of Time between two Eternities; no second chance to us for evermore! — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Nothing ever happens but once in all this world. What I do now I do once for all. It is over and… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
History is a mighty dramos, enacted upon the theatre of times, with suns for lamps and eternity for a background. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
What a wretched thing is all fame! A renown of the highest sort endures, say, for two thousand years. And then? Why,… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The Bible is the truest utterance that ever came by alphabetic letters from the soul of man, through which, as through a… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
“Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together; that at length they may emerge, full-formed and majestic, into the… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The wise man is but a clever infant, spelling letters from a hieroglyphical prophetic book, the lexicon of which lies in eternity. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
So here hath been dawning Another blue day; Think, wilt thou let it Slip useless away? Out of eternity This new day… — 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
