Men worship the shows of great men; the most disbelieve that there is any reality of great men to worship. — 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
We have not the love of greatness, but the love of the love of greatness. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Are not our greatest men as good as lost? The men that walk daily among us, warming us, feeding us, walk shrouded… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
“Great men taken up in any way are profitable company. We cannot look, however imperfectly, upon a great man without gaining something… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
It is great, and there is no other greatness-to make one nook of God's Creation more fruitful, better, more worthy of God;… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Great men are the modelers, patterns, and in a wide sense creators, of whatsoever the general mass of men contrived to do… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
We observe with confidence that the truly strong mind, view it as intellect or morality, or under any other aspect, is nowise… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Well might the ancients make silence a god; for it is the element of all godhood, infinitude, or transcendental greatness,--at once the… — 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
We are to remember what an umpire Nature is; what a greatness, composure of depth and tolerance there is in her. You… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Man's Unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his Greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, with which all his… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Man's Unhappiness... comes of his Greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, with which all his cunning he cannot… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Man's unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his… — 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
No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share
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
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
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
All human things do require to have an ideal in them; to have some soul in them. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share
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
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
Does not every true man feel that he is himself made higher by doing reverence to what is really above him? — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share
