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
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 Copy Share Image
In this world there is one godlike thing, the essence of all that was or ever will be of godlike in this… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Men are grown mechanical in head and in the heart, as well as in the hand. They have lost faith in individual… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The cut of a garment speaks of intellect and talent and the color of temperament and heart. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Let him who gropes painfully in darkness or uncertain light, and prays vehemently that the dawn may ripen into day, lay this… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
What an enormous magnifier is tradition! How a thing grows in the human memory and in the human imagination, when love, worship,… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
One of the Godlike things of this world is the veneration done to human worth by the hearts of men. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Cease to brag to me of America, and its model institutions and constitutions. America, too, will have to strain its energies, crack… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy. — 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
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
They wrong man greatly who say he is to be seduced by ease. Difficulty, abnegation, martyrdom, death are the allurements that act… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Men's hearts ought not to be set against one another, but set with one another and all against evil only. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Nakedness, hunger, distress of all kinds, death itself have been cheerfully suffered, when the heart was right. It is the feeling of… — 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
The word of Mohammad is a voice direct from nature's own heart - all else is wind in comparison. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Trust not the heart of that man for whom old clothes are not venerable. — 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
