To the wisest man, wide as is his vision. Nature remains of quite infinite depth, of quite infinite expansion and all experience… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The world is a thing that a man must learn to despise, and even to neglect, before he can learn to reverence… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Why tell me that a man is a fine speaker, if it is not the truth that he is speaking? — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
This is the eternal law of Nature for a man, my beneficent Exeter-Hall friends; this, that he shall be permitted, encouraged, and… — 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
Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
I should say sincerity, a deep, great, genuine sincerity, is the first characteristic of all men in any way heroic. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Neither let mistakes and wrong directions - of which every man, in his studies and elsewhere, falls into many - discourage you.… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Great men are the modelers, patterns, and in a wide sense creators, of whatsoever the general mass of men contrived to do… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Without oblivion, there is no remembrance possible. When both oblivion and memory are wise, when the general soul of man is clear,… — 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
The most unhappy of all men is the man who cannot tell what he is going to do, who has got no… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The suffering man ought really to consume his own smoke; there is no good in emitting smoke till you have made it… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
It is no very good symptom, either of nations or individuals, that they deal much in vaticination. Happy men are full of… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The Bible is the truest utterance that ever came by alphabetic letters from the soul of man, through which, as through a… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Action hangs, as it were, dissolved in speech, in thoughts whereof speech is the shadow; and precipitates itself therefrom. The kind of… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Happy season of childhood! Kind Nature, that art to all a bountiful mother; that visitest the poor man's hut With auroral radiance;… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
History, as it lies at the root of all science, is also the first distinct product of man's spiritual nature, his earliest… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, could ever compel the soul of man to believe or to disbelieve: it… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Let a man try faithfully, manfully to be right; he will grow daily more and more right. It is at bottom the… — 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
