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 Image
No nobler feeling than this, of admiration for one higher than himself, dwells in the breast of man. It is to this… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
There is in man a higher than love of happiness; he can do without happiness, and instead thereof find blessedness. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Painful for a person is rebellious independence, only in loving companionship with his associates does a person feel safe: Only in reverently… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
I have seen gleams in the face and eyes of the man that have let you look into a higher country. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Hero-worship is the deepest root of all; the tap-root, from which in a great degree all the rest were nourished and grown… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Silence, the great Empire of Silence: higher than all stars; deeper than the Kingdom of Death! It alone is great; all else… — 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
