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
Pin your faith to no ones sleeves, haven't you two eyes of your own. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Such is the world. Understand it, despise it, love it; cheerfully hold on thy way through it, with thy eye on highest… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
To the mean eye all things are trivial, as certainly as to the jaundiced they are yellow. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Man always worships something; always he sees the Infinite shadowed forth in something finite; and indeed can and must so see it… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
In every object there is inexhaustible meaning; the eye sees in it what the eye brings means of seeing. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Histories are as perfect as the Historian is wise, and is gifted with an eye and a soul. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
We are to take no counsel with flesh and blood; give ear to no vain cavils, vain sorrows and wishes; to know… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
A man must indeed be a hero to appear such in the eyes of his valet. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The man who cannot wonder, who does not habitually wonder (and worship), were he President of innumerable Royal Societies, and carried the… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Men are to be guided only by their self-interests. Good government is a good balancing of these; and, except a keen eye… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
All men, if they work not as in the great taskmaster's eye, will work wrong, and work unhappily for themselves and for… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
I have seen gleams in the face and eyes of the man that have let you look into a higher country. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Shakespeare says, we are creatures that look before and after; the more surprising that we do not look around a little, and… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The person who cannot wonder is but a pair of spectacles behind which there is no eye. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The eye of the intellect "sees in all objects what it brought with it the means of seeing." — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Pin thy faith to no man's sleeve. Hast thou not two eyes of thy own? — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Rightly viewed no meanest object is insignificant; all objects are as windows through which the philosophic eye looks into infinitude itself. — 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
