O thou that pinest in the imprisonment of the Actual, and criest bitterly to the gods for a kingdom wherein to rule… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Money, in truth, can do much, but it cannot do all. We must know the province of it, and confine it there,… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Our works are the mirror wherein the spirit first sees its natural lineaments. Hence, too, the folly of that impossible precept, Know… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Conclusive facts are inseparable from inconclusive except by a head that already understands and knows. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
What this country needs is a man who knows God other than by heresay. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
We are to take no counsel with flesh and blood; give ear to no vain cavils, vain sorrows and wishes; to know… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The healthy know not of their health, but only the sick: this is the physician's aphorism, and applicable in a far wider… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Obedience is our universal duty and destiny; wherein whoso will not bend must break; too early and too thoroughly we cannot be… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
What are your historical Facts still more your biographical Wilt thou know a man by stringing-together beadrolls of what thou namest Facts — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows. The greatest of faults, I should say is to be… — 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
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
Why did not somebody teach me the constellations, and make me at home in the starry heavens, which are always overhead, and… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Alas! we know that ideals can never be completely embodied in practice. Ideals must ever lie a great way off--and we will… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Show me the man you honor; I know by that symptom, better than by any other, what kind of man you yourself… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
To know, to get into the truth of anything, is ever a mystic art, of which the best logic's can but babble… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
They have their belief, these poor Tibet people, that Providence sends down always an Incarnation of Himself into every generation. At bottom… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
I know so little about any history. How little do I know even about the history of myself. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness. He has a work, a Life-purpose... Get your… — 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
