--- title: "4 Swim Quotes By Thomas Carlyle" description: "4 Swim quotes by Thomas Carlyle. Plus more from Thomas Carlyle and more Swim sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/860/thomas-carlyle-207_boiling_ever-as-before-does-madness-remain-a-mys_1167547.png" --- > [Ever, as before, does Madness remain a mysterious-terrific, altogether infernal boiling-up of the Nether Chaotic Deep, through this fair-painted Vision of Creation,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-carlyle/ever-as-before-does-madness-remain-a-mysterious-terrific-altogether/) [Thomas Carlyle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-carlyle/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/860/thomas-carlyle-207_boiling_ever-as-before-does-madness-remain-a-mys_1167547.png) > [Time is the silent, never-resting thing ... rolling, rushing on, swift, silent, like an all-embracing oceantide, on which we and all the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-carlyle/time-is-the-silent-never-resting-thing-rolling-rushing-on-swift/) [Thomas Carlyle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-carlyle/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c7b/thomas-carlyle-207_rolling_time-is-the-silent-never-resting-thing-r_2228082.png) > [Science has done much for us; but it is a poor science that would hide from us the great deep sacred infinitude…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-carlyle/science-has-done-much-for-us-but-it-is-a-poor-science-that-would-hide/) [Thomas Carlyle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-carlyle/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/281/thomas-carlyle-207_accounts_science-has-done-much-for-us-but-it-is-a_2247565.png) > [That great mystery of TIME, were there no other; the illimitable, silent, never-resting thing called Time, rolling, rushing on, swift, silent, like…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-carlyle/that-great-mystery-of-time-were-there-no-other-the-illimitable-silent/) [Thomas Carlyle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-carlyle/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/01c/thomas-carlyle-207_apparitions_that-great-mystery-of-time-were-there-no_2648638.jpg) ## Other authors on Swim ## 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/swim/thomas-carlyle/#itemlist", "name": "4 Swim Quotes By Thomas Carlyle", "numberOfItems": 4, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Ever, as before, does Madness remain a mysterious-terrific, altogether infernal boiling-up of the Nether Chaotic Deep, through this fair-painted Vision of Creation, which swims thereon, which we name the Real.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Thomas Carlyle" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-carlyle/ever-as-before-does-madness-remain-a-mysterious-terrific-altogether/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/860/thomas-carlyle-207_boiling_ever-as-before-does-madness-remain-a-mys_1167547.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/860/thomas-carlyle-207_boiling_ever-as-before-does-madness-remain-a-mys_1167547.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/860/thomas-carlyle-207_boiling_ever-as-before-does-madness-remain-a-mys_1167547.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Ever, as before, does Madness remain a mysterious-terrific, altogether infernal boiling-up of the Nether…” — Thomas Carlyle", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Time is the silent, never-resting thing ... rolling, rushing on, swift, silent, like an all-embracing oceantide, on which we and all the universe swim.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Thomas Carlyle" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-carlyle/time-is-the-silent-never-resting-thing-rolling-rushing-on-swift/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c7b/thomas-carlyle-207_rolling_time-is-the-silent-never-resting-thing-r_2228082.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c7b/thomas-carlyle-207_rolling_time-is-the-silent-never-resting-thing-r_2228082.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c7b/thomas-carlyle-207_rolling_time-is-the-silent-never-resting-thing-r_2228082.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Time is the silent, never-resting thing ... rolling, rushing on, swift, silent, like an all-embracing…” — Thomas Carlyle", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Science has done much for us; 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