--- title: "8 Length Quotes By Thomas Carlyle" description: "8 Length quotes by Thomas Carlyle. Plus more from Thomas Carlyle and more Length sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/39b/thomas-carlyle-207_capable_the-great-law-of-culture-is-let-each-bec_330221.jpg" --- > [The great law of culture is, Let each become all that he was created capable of being; expand, if possible, to his…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-carlyle/the-great-law-of-culture-is-let-each-become-all-that-he-was-created/) [Thomas Carlyle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-carlyle/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/39b/thomas-carlyle-207_capable_the-great-law-of-culture-is-let-each-bec_330221.jpg) > [No man at bottom means injustice; it is always for some obscure distorted image of a right that he contends: an obscure…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-carlyle/no-man-at-bottom-means-injustice-it-is-always-for-some-obscure/) [Thomas Carlyle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-carlyle/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/713/thomas-carlyle-207_able_no-man-at-bottom-means-injustice-it-is-a_839558.jpg) > [Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together; that at length they may emerge, full-formed and majestic, into the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-carlyle/silence-is-the-element-in-which-great-things-fashion-themselves/) [Thomas Carlyle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-carlyle/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b64/thomas-carlyle-207_delight_silence-is-the-element-in-which-great-th_991903.png) > [Only perhaps in the United States, which alone of countries can do without governing,every man being at least able to live, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-carlyle/only-perhaps-in-the-united-states-which-alone-of-countries-can-do/) [Thomas Carlyle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-carlyle/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3c1/thomas-carlyle-207_able_only-perhaps-in-the-united-states-which_1271276.jpg) > [Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-carlyle/men-seldom-or-rather-never-for-a-length-of-time-and-deliberately/) [Thomas Carlyle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-carlyle/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/943/thomas-carlyle-207_deserve_men-seldom-or-rather-never-for-a-length_1379260.png) > [Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-carlyle/long-stormy-spring-time-wet-contentious-april-winter-chilling-the-lap/) [Thomas Carlyle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-carlyle/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0dc/thomas-carlyle-207_april_long-stormy-spring-time-wet-contentious_1392418.png) > [Professors of the Dismal Science, I perceive the length of your tether is now pretty well run; and I must request you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-carlyle/professors-of-the-dismal-science-i-perceive-the-length-of-your-tether/) [Thomas Carlyle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-carlyle/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d58/thomas-carlyle-207_length_professors-of-the-dismal-science-i-perce_2675525.png) > [Whoso has sixpence is sovereign (to the length of sixpence) over all men; commands cooks to feed him, philosophers to teach him,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-carlyle/whoso-has-sixpence-is-sovereign-to-the-length-of-sixpence-over-all/) [Thomas Carlyle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-carlyle/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/83f/thomas-carlyle-207_command_whoso-has-sixpence-is-sovereign-to-the-l_2676683.png) ## Other authors on Length ## More by Thomas Carlyle > [O thou that pinest in the imprisonment of the Actual, and criest bitterly to the gods for a kingdom wherein to rule and create,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-carlyle/o-thou-that-pinest-in-the-imprisonment-of-the-actual-and-criest/) [Thomas Carlyle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-carlyle/) > [Whose school-hours are all the days and nights of our existence.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-carlyle/whose-school-hours-are-all-the-days-and-nights-of-our-existence/) [Thomas Carlyle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-carlyle/) > [No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-carlyle/no-sadder-proof-can-be-given-by-a-man-of-his-own-littleness-than/) [Thomas Carlyle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-carlyle/) > [Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such: it is an accident, not a property, of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-carlyle/fame-we-may-understand-is-no-sure-test-of-merit-but-only-a/) [Thomas Carlyle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-carlyle/) > [The sincere alone can recognize sincerity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-carlyle/the-sincere-alone-can-recognize-sincerity/) [Thomas Carlyle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-carlyle/) > [Be a pattern to others, and then all will go well; for as a whole city is affected by the licentious passions and vices…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-carlyle/be-a-pattern-to-others-and-then-all-will-go-well-for-as-a-whole-city/) [Thomas Carlyle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-carlyle/) > [The glory of a workman, still more of a master workman, that he does his work well, ought to be his most precious possession;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-carlyle/the-glory-of-a-workman-still-more-of-a-master-workman-that-he-does/) [Thomas Carlyle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-carlyle/) > [All human things do require to have an ideal in them; to have some soul in them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-carlyle/all-human-things-do-require-to-have-an-ideal-in-them-to-have-some/) [Thomas Carlyle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-carlyle/) > [Insurrection, never so necessary, is a most sad necessity; and governors who wait for that to instruct them are surely getting into the fatalest…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-carlyle/insurrection-never-so-necessary-is-a-most-sad-necessity-and-governors/) [Thomas Carlyle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-carlyle/) > [What is philosophy but a continual battle against custom?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-carlyle/what-is-philosophy-but-a-continual-battle-against-custom/) [Thomas Carlyle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-carlyle/) > [Let Time and Chance combine, combine! Let Time and Chance combine! The fairest love from heaven above, That love of yours was mine, My…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-carlyle/let-time-and-chance-combine-combine-let-time-and-chance-combine-the/) [Thomas Carlyle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-carlyle/) > [Thought will not work except in silence.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-carlyle/thought-will-not-work-except-in-silence/) [Thomas Carlyle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-carlyle/) > [The public is anold woman.Let her maunderand mumble.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-carlyle/the-public-is-anold-woman-let-her-maunderand-mumble/) [Thomas Carlyle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-carlyle/) > [Does not every true man feel that he is himself made higher by doing reverence to what is really above him?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-carlyle/does-not-every-true-man-feel-that-he-is-himself-made-higher-by-doing/) [Thomas Carlyle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-carlyle/) > [The press is the fourth estate of the realm.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-carlyle/the-press-is-the-fourth-estate-of-the-realm/) [Thomas Carlyle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-carlyle/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/length/thomas-carlyle/#itemlist", "name": "8 Length Quotes By Thomas Carlyle", "numberOfItems": 8, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The great law of culture is, Let each become all that he was created capable of being; 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