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
The first purpose of clothes... was not warmth or decency, but ornament.... Among wild people, we find tattooing and painting even prior… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Is there no God, then, but at best an absentee God, sitting idle, ever since the first Sabbath, at the outside of… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Our works are the mirror wherein the spirit first sees its natural lineaments. Hence, too, the folly of that impossible precept, Know… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
He who first shortened the labor of Copyists by device of Movable Types was disbanding hired armies and cashiering most Kings and… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Let him who wants to move and convince others, be first moved and convinced himself. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
I should say sincerity, a deep, great, genuine sincerity, is the first characteristic of all men in any way heroic. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
No good book, or good thing of any sort, shows its best face at first. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
History, as it lies at the root of all science, is also the first distinct product of man's spiritual nature, his earliest… — 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
Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with; as if, observes our author himself, any originality but our… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Let one who wants to move and convince others, first be convinced and moved themselves. If a person speaks with genuine earnestness… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
'Genius' which means transcendent capacity of taking trouble, first of all. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Beautiful it is, and a gleam from the same eternal pole-star visible amid the destinies of men, that all talent, all intellect,… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Let him who would move and convince others, be first moved and convinced himself. — 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
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
