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
Eternity looks grander and kinder if time grow meaner and more hostile. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
All work is as seed sown; it grows and spreads, and sows itself anew. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Let a man try faithfully, manfully to be right, he will daily grow more and more right. It is at the bottom… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
I grow daily to honor facts more and more, and theory less and less. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Neither let mistakes and wrong directions - of which every man, in his studies and elsewhere, falls into many - discourage you.… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Thought once awakened does not again slumber; unfolds itself into a System of Thought; grows, in man after man, generation after generation,… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Let a man try faithfully, manfully to be right; he will grow daily more and more right. It is at bottom the… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
An everlasting lodestar, that beams the brighter in the heavens the darker here on earth grows the night. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
How indestructibly the good grows, and propagates itself, even among the weedy entanglements of evil. — 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
