Such is the world. Understand it, despise it, love it; cheerfully hold on thy way through it, with thy eye on highest… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
No sooner does a great man depart, and leave his character as public property, than a crowd of little men rushes towards… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
I too acknowledge the all-out omnipotence of early culture and nature; hereby we have either a doddered dwarf-bush, or a high-towering, wide-shadowing… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
No man at bottom means injustice; it is always for some obscure distorted image of a right that he contends: an obscure… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
We are to take no counsel with flesh and blood; give ear to no vain cavils, vain sorrows and wishes; to know… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
I think Scandinavian Paganism, to us here, is more interesting than any other. It is, for one thing, the latest; it continued… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Manhood begins when we have in any way made truce with Necessity; begins even when we have surrendered to Necessity, as the… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Does it ever give thee pause that men used to have a soul? Not by hearsay alone, or as a figure of… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
If I had my way, the world would hear a pretty stern command - Exit Christ. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Do not be embarrassed by your mistakes. Nothing can teach us better than our understanding of them. This is one of the… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The civil authority, or that part of it which remained faithful to their trust and true to the ends of the covenant,… — 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
Let me have my own way in exactly everything and a sunnier and pleasanter creature does not exist. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
A man protesting against error is on the way towards uniting himself with all men that believe in truth. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Alas! we know that ideals can never be completely embodied in practice. Ideals must ever lie a great way off--and we will… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Naps are a way of traveling painlessly through time into the future. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
It is not to taste sweet things; but to do noble and true things, and vindicate himself under God's heaven as a… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
A man with a half volition goes backwards and forwards, and makes no way on the smoothest road; a man with a… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
I came hither [Craigenputtoch] solely with the design to simplify my way of life and to secure the independence through which I… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
There are but two ways of paying debt: Increase of industry in raising income, increase of thrift in laying out. — 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
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