Whole Quotes by Thomas Carlyle

There is often more spiritual force in a proverb than in whole philosophical systems.

— Thomas Carlyle

Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man

— Thomas Carlyle

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

— Thomas Carlyle

The whole past is the procession of the present.

— Thomas Carlyle

The leafy blossoming present time springs from the whole past, remembered and unrememberable.

— Thomas Carlyle

He who would write heroic poems should make his whole life a heroic poem.

— Thomas Carlyle

Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.

— Thomas Carlyle

Skepticism . . . is not intellectual only it is moral also, a chronic atrophy and disease of the whole soul.

— Thomas Carlyle

Even in the meanest sorts of labor, the whole soul of a man is composed into a kind of real harmony the…

— Thomas Carlyle

Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you…

— Thomas Carlyle

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

— Thomas Carlyle

The person who cannot laugh is not only ready for treason, and deceptions, their whole life is already a treason and deception.

— Thomas Carlyle

On the whole, I would bid you stand up to your work, whatever it may be, and not be afraid of it;…

— Thomas Carlyle

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness. He has a work, a Life-purpose... Get your…

— Thomas Carlyle

Skepticism, as I said, is not intellectual only; it is moral also; a chronic atrophy and disease of the whole soul. A…

— Thomas Carlyle

The greatest of all heroes is One--whom we do not name here! Let sacred silence meditate that sacred matter; you will find…

— Thomas Carlyle

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

He who first shortened the labor of Copyists by device of Movable Types was disbanding hired armies and cashiering most Kings and…

— Thomas Carlyle

The errors of a wise man are literally more instructive than the truths of a fool. The wise man travels in lofty,…

— Thomas Carlyle

We are to remember what an umpire Nature is; what a greatness, composure of depth and tolerance there is in her. You…

— Thomas Carlyle

A man with a half volition goes backwards and forwards, and makes no way on the smoothest road; a man with a…

— Thomas Carlyle

Why multiply instances? It is written, the Heavens and the Earth shall fade away like a Vesture; which indeed they are: the…

— Thomas Carlyle

Poverty, we may say, surrounds a man with ready-made barriers, which if they do mournfully gall and hamper, do at least prescribe…

— Thomas Carlyle