O thou who art able to write a Book, which once in the two centuries or oftener there is a man gifted… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
“Every poet... finds himself born in the midst of prose. He has to struggle from the littleness and obstruction of an actual… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Considering the multitude of mortals that handle the pen in these days, and can mostly spell, and write without glaring violations of… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self activity. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
He who would write heroic poems should make his whole life a heroic poem. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Every poet, be his outward lot what it may, finds himself born in the midst of prose; h e has to struggle… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
O thou who art able to write a book which once in the two centuries or oftener there is a man gifted… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
In every man's writings, the character of the writer must lie recorded. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Oblivion is the dark page, whereon Memory writes her light-beam characters, and makes them legible; were it all light, nothing could 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
