Clean undeniable right, clear undeniable might: either of these once ascertained puts an end to battle. All battle is a confused experiment… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Social Science, is not a 'gay science' but rueful, which finds the secret of this universe in 'supply and demand' and reduces… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Not our Logical, Mensurative faculty, but our Imaginative one is King over us; I might say, Priest and Prophet to lead us… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do that with all thy might and leave the issues calmly to God. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Well might the ancients make silence a god; for it is the element of all godhood, infinitude, or transcendental greatness,--at once the… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Not our logical faculty, but our imaginative one is king over us. I might say, priest and prophet to lead us to… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Produce, produce! Were it but the pitifulest, infinitesimal fraction of a product, produce it in God's name. 'Tis the utmost thou hast… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Might and right do differ frightfully from hour to hour, but then centuries to try it in, they are found to be… — 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
