No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Pain was not given thee merely to be miserable under; learn from it, turn it to account. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Labor is life: from the inmost heart of the worker rises his God-given force, the sacred celestial life-essence breathed into him by… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Of all the paths a man could strike into, there is, at any given moment, a best path .. A thing which,… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
To each is given a certain inward talent, a certain outward environment or fortune; to each by wisest combination of these two,… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
All sorts of Heroes are intrinsically of the same material; that given a great soul, open to the Divine Significance of Life,… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Have a purpose in life, and having it, throw into your work such strength of mind and muscle as God has given… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Taste, if it mean anything but a paltry connoisseurship, must mean a general susceptibility to truth and nobleness, a sense to discern,… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Except by name, Jean Paul Friedrich Richter is little known out of Germany. The only thing connected with him, we think, that… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
A man with a half volition goes backwards and forwards, and makes no way on the smoothest road; a man with a… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Providence has given to the French the empire of the land, to the English that of the sea, to the Germans that… — 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
