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Things Quotes by Thomas Carlyle
- Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacle s, discouragement s, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul…
- A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.
- Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.
- For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.
- Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together; that at length they may emerge, full-formed and majestic, into the delight of life,…
- One of the Godlike things of this world is the veneration done to human worth by the hearts of men.
- Wealth of a man is the number of things which he loves and blesses which he is loved and blessed by.
- Statistics, one may hope, will improve gradually, and become good for something. Meanwhile, it is to be feared the crabbed satirist was partly right, as…
- Contented saturnine human figures, a dozen or so of them, sitting around a large long table...Perfect equality is to be the rule; no rising or…
- Skepticism, as I said, is not intellectual only; it is moral also; a chronic atrophy and disease of the whole soul. A man lives by…
- A man's religion consists, not of the many things he is in doubt of and tries to believe, but of the few he is assured…
- All deep things are song. It seems somehow the very central essence of us, song; as if all the rest were but wrappages and hulls!
- Not on morality, but on cookery, let us build our stronghold: there brandishing our frying-pan, as censer, let us offer sweet incense to the Devil,…
- To the vulgar eye, few things are wonderful that are not distant
- I call the book of Job, apart from all theories about it, one of the grandest things ever written with the pen.
- Our very walking is an incessant falling; a falling and a catching of ourselves before we come actually to the pavement. It is emblematic of…
- To the mean eye all things are trivial, as certainly as to the jaundiced they are yellow.
- Parliament will train you to talk; and above all things to hear, with patience, unlimited quantities of foolish talk.
- We have our little theory on all human and divine things. Poetry, the workings of genius itself, which, in all times, with one or another…
- Of all the paths a man could strike into, there is, at any given moment, a best path .. A thing which, here and now,…
- Enjoying things which are pleasant; that is not the evil; it is the reducing of our moral self to slavery by them that is.
- Of all the things which man can do or make here below, by far the most momentous, wonderful, and worthy are the things we call…
- Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragements, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the…
- Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragement, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the…
More Things Quotes
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. — Aristotle
- The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Change in all things is sweet. — Aristotle
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle
- A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way… — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle