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Time Quotes by Thomas Carlyle

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Thomas Carlyle repeats that Time and Chance must combine to shape events. He contrasts deep silence, which he likens to eternity, with shallow speech that he says is as fleeting as time. He also calls history a grand drama played on a stage of ages. His thoughts mix philosophy with vivid imagery.

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“One life - a little gleam of Time between two Eternities.”

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Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.

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Silence is as deep as eternity; speech, shallow as time.

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Stop a moment, cease your work, and look around you.

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He who has no vision of eternity has no hold on time.

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In books lies the soul of the whole past time.

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Naps are a way of traveling painlessly through time into the future.

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In books lies the soul fo the whole past time.

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Eternity looks grander and kinder if time grow meaner and more hostile.

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If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated readings deserves to be read at all.

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The past is all holy to us; the dead are all holy; even they that were wicked when alive.

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Over the times thou hast no power. . . . Solely over one man thou hast quite absolute power. Him redeem and make honest.

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O Time! Time! how it brings forth and devours! And the roaring flood of existence rushes on forever similar, forever changing!

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Also, what mountains of dead ashes, wreck and burnt bones, does assiduous pedantry dig up from the past time and name it…

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What unknown seas of feeling lie in man, and will from time to time break through!

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There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.

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Time is the silent, never-resting thing ... rolling, rushing on, swift, silent, like an all-embracing oceantide, on which we and all the…

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Wealth has more and more increased, and at the same time gathered itself more and more into masses, strangely altering the old…

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Of all the paths a man could strike into, there is, at any given moment, a best path .. A thing which,…

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In no time whatever can small critics entirely eradicate out of living men's hearts a certain altogether peculiar collar reverence for Great…

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Professors of the Dismal Science, I perceive the length of your tether is now pretty well run; and I must request you…

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Let Time and Chance combine, combine! Let Time and Chance combine! The fairest love from heaven above, That love of yours was…

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In books lies the soul of the whole Past Time; the articulate audible voice of the Past, when the body and material…

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The meaning of song goes deep. Who in logical words can explain the effect music has on us? A kind of inarticulate,…

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“The illimitable, silent, never-resting thing called Time, rolling, rushing on, swift, silent, like an all-embracing ocean-tide, on which we and all the…

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Are we not Spirits, that are shaped into a body, into an Appearance; and that fade away again into air and Invisibility?…

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Give us, O give us the man who sings at his work! Be his occupation what it may, he is equal to…

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“Ye are most strong, ye Sons of the icy North, of the far East, far marching from your rugged Eastern Wildernesses, hither-ward…

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That great mystery of TIME, were there no other; the illimitable, silent, never-resting thing called Time, rolling, rushing on, swift, silent, like…

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Only perhaps in the United States, which alone of countries can do without governing,every man being at least able to live, and…

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“Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together; that at length they may emerge, full-formed and majestic, into the…

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The past is always attractive because it is drained of fear.

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A word spoken in season, at the right moment; is the mother of ages.

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The Present is the living sum-total of the whole Past.

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Time has only a relative existence.

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Speech is of time, silence is of eternity.

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The whole past is the procession of the present.

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One life; a little gleam of Time between two Eternities; no second chance to us for evermore!

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Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is…

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The times are very bad. Very well, you are there to make them better.

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O thou that pinest in the imprisonment of the Actual, and criest bitterly to the gods for a kingdom wherein to rule and create,…

Whose school-hours are all the days and nights of our existence.

No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.

Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such: it is an accident, not a property, of…

The sincere alone can recognize sincerity.

Be a pattern to others, and then all will go well; for as a whole city is affected by the licentious passions and vices…

The glory of a workman, still more of a master workman, that he does his work well, ought to be his most precious possession;…

All human things do require to have an ideal in them; to have some soul in them.

Insurrection, never so necessary, is a most sad necessity; and governors who wait for that to instruct them are surely getting into the fatalest…

What is philosophy but a continual battle against custom?

Let Time and Chance combine, combine! Let Time and Chance combine! The fairest love from heaven above, That love of yours was mine, My…

Thought will not work except in silence.

The public is anold woman.Let her maunderand mumble.

Does not every true man feel that he is himself made higher by doing reverence to what is really above him?

The press is the fourth estate of the realm.