Heaven Quotes by Thomas Carlyle

Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.

— Thomas Carlyle

Labor, wide as the earth, has its summit in heaven.

— Thomas Carlyle

A man--be the heavens ever praised!--is sufficient for himself.

— Thomas Carlyle

Why did not somebody teach me the constellations, and make me at home in the starry heavens, which are always overhead, and…

— Thomas Carlyle

All true work is sacred. In all true work, were it but true hand work, there is something of divineness. Labor, wide…

— Thomas Carlyle

An everlasting lodestar, that beams the brighter in the heavens the darker here on earth grows the night.

— Thomas Carlyle

Let Time and Chance combine, combine! Let Time and Chance combine! The fairest love from heaven above, That love of yours was…

— Thomas Carlyle

And man's little Life has Duties that are great, that are alone great, and go up to Heaven and down to Hell.

— Thomas Carlyle

Not our Logical, Mensurative faculty, but our Imaginative one is King over us; I might say, Priest and Prophet to lead us…

— Thomas Carlyle

Not our logical faculty, but our imaginative one is king over us. I might say, priest and prophet to lead us to…

— Thomas Carlyle

This little life has its duties that are great-that are alone great, and that go up to heaven and down to hell.

— Thomas Carlyle

Alas! while the body stands so broad and brawny, must the soul lie blinded, dwarfed, stupefied, almost annihilated? Alas! this was, too,…

— Thomas Carlyle

How were friendship possible? In mutual devotedness to the good and true; otherwise impossible, except as armed neutrality or hollow commercial league.…

— Thomas Carlyle

These Arabs, the man Mahomet, and that one century, - is it not as if a spark had fallen, one spark, on…

— Thomas Carlyle

A star is beautiful; it affords pleasure, not from what it is to do, or to give, but simply by being what…

— Thomas Carlyle

Are we not Spirits, that are shaped into a body, into an Appearance; and that fade away again into air and Invisibility?…

— Thomas Carlyle

Why multiply instances? It is written, the Heavens and the Earth shall fade away like a Vesture; which indeed they are: the…

— Thomas Carlyle

We are to take no counsel with flesh and blood; give ear to no vain cavils, vain sorrows and wishes; to know…

— 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

There are depths in man that go to the lowest hell, and heights that reach the highest heaven, for are not both…

— Thomas Carlyle

O Heaven, it is mysterious, it is awful to consider that we not only carry each a future Ghost within him; but…

— Thomas Carlyle

Oh, Heaven, it is mysterious, it is awful to consider that we not only carry a future Ghost within us; but are,…

— Thomas Carlyle

The Builder of this Universe was wise, He plann'd all souls, all systems, planets, particles: The Plan He shap'd all Worlds and…

— Thomas Carlyle

What is nature? Art thou not the living government of God? O Heaven, is it in very deed He then that ever…

— Thomas Carlyle