Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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All comes out even at the end of the day.
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History is a mighty dramos, enacted upon the theatre of times, with suns for lamps and eternity for a background.
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Prayer is and remains always a native and deepest impulse of the soul of man.
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How were friendship possible? In mutual devotedness to the good and true; otherwise impossible, except as armed neutrality or hollow commercial league. A man, be the heavens ever praised, is sufficient for himself; yet were ten men, united in love, capable of being and of doing what ten thousand singly would fail in. Infinite is the help man can yield to man.
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At the bottom there is no perfect history; there is none such conceivable. All past centuries have rotted down, and gone confusedly dumb and quiet.
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All work, even cotton-spinning, is noble; work is alone noble.
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Thought will not work except in silence.
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If Hero means sincere man, why may not every one of us be a Hero?
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The fine arts once divorcing themselves from truth are quite certain to fall mad, if they do not die.
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Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil; for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it.
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If I had my way, the world would hear a pretty stern command - Exit Christ.
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Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It's a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment.
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Biography is the only true history.
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Nay, in every epoch of the world, the great event, parent of all others, is it not the arrival of a Thinker in the world?
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Obedience is our universal duty and destiny; wherein whoso will not bend must break; too early and too thoroughly we cannot be trained to know that "would," in this world of ours, is a mere zero to "should," and for most part as the smallest of fractions even to "shall.
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You can make even a parrot into a learned political economist - all he must learn are the two words "supply" and "demand."
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Heroes, it would seem, exist always and a certain worship of them.
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Little other than a red tape Talking-machine, and unhappy Bag of Parliamentary Eloquence.
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Philosophy dwells aloft in the Temple of Science, the divinity of its inmost shrine; her dictates descend among men, but she herself descends not : whoso would behold her must climb with long and laborious effort, nay, still linger in the forecourt, till manifold trial have proved him worthy of admission into the interior solemnities.
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The dust of controversy is merely the falsehood flying off.
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Pain was not given thee merely to be miserable under; learn from it, turn it to account.
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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 any of those who follow the same pursuit in silent sullenness. He will do more in the same time . . . he will do it better . . . he will persevere longer. One is scarcely sensible to fatigue while he marches to music. The very stars are said to make harmony as they revolve in their spheres.
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Terror itself, when once grown transcendental, becomes a kind of courage; as frost sufficiently intense, according to the poet Milton, will burn.
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Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.