There is often more spiritual force in a proverb than in whole philosophical systems. — 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
He that will not work according to his faculty, let him perish according to his necessity: there is no law juster than… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Speech is too often not the art of concealing thought, but of quite stifling and suspending thought, so that there is none… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Our grand business undoubtedly is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
It is through symbols that man consciously or unconsciously lives, works and has his being. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
All men, if they work not as in the great taskmaster's eye, will work wrong, and work unhappily for themselves and for… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The Orator persuades and carries all with him, he knows not how; the Rhetorician can prove that he ought to have persuaded… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
There is so much data available to us, but most data won't help us succeed. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
... There is always hope in a man who actually and earnestly works. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
All work is as seed sown; it grows and spreads, and sows itself anew. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
And yet without labour there were no ease, no rest, so much as conceivable. — 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
