Heart Quotes by Thomas Carlyle

It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.

— Thomas Carlyle

Feel it in thy heart and then say whether it is of God!

— Thomas Carlyle

The cut of a garment speaks of intellect and talent and the color of temperament and heart.

— Thomas Carlyle

Trust not the heart of that man for whom old clothes are not venerable.

— Thomas Carlyle

If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.

— Thomas Carlyle

The word of Mohammad is a voice direct from nature's own heart - all else is wind in comparison.

— Thomas Carlyle

A vein of poetry exists in the hearts of all men.

— Thomas Carlyle

The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity.

— Thomas Carlyle

Laws, written, if not on stone tables, yet on the azure of infinitude, in the inner heart of God's creation, certain as…

— Thomas Carlyle

Men are grown mechanical in head and in the heart, as well as in the hand. They have lost faith in individual…

— Thomas Carlyle

In no time whatever can small critics entirely eradicate out of living men's hearts a certain altogether peculiar collar reverence for Great…

— Thomas Carlyle

Men's hearts ought not to be set against one another, but set with one another and all against evil only.

— Thomas Carlyle

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

Nakedness, hunger, distress of all kinds, death itself have been cheerfully suffered, when the heart was right. It is the feeling of…

— Thomas Carlyle

They wrong man greatly who say he is to be seduced by ease. Difficulty, abnegation, martyrdom, death are the allurements that act…

— Thomas Carlyle

Cease to brag to me of America, and its model institutions and constitutions. America, too, will have to strain its energies, crack…

— Thomas Carlyle

Let him who gropes painfully in darkness or uncertain light, and prays vehemently that the dawn may ripen into day, lay this…

— Thomas Carlyle

Let one who wants to move and convince others, first be convinced and moved themselves. If a person speaks with genuine earnestness…

— Thomas Carlyle

Taste, if it mean anything but a paltry connoisseurship, must mean a general susceptibility to truth and nobleness, a sense to discern,…

— Thomas Carlyle

It is not to taste sweet things; but to do noble and true things, and vindicate himself under God's heaven as a…

— Thomas Carlyle

True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues…

— Thomas Carlyle

If a book comes from the heart, it will contrive to reach other hearts; all art and author-craft are of small amount…

— Thomas Carlyle

One of the Godlike things of this world is the veneration done to human worth by the hearts of men.

— Thomas Carlyle

A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy.

— Thomas Carlyle

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

What an enormous magnifier is tradition! How a thing grows in the human memory and in the human imagination, when love, worship,…

— Thomas Carlyle

In this world there is one godlike thing, the essence of all that was or ever will be of godlike in this…

— Thomas Carlyle