Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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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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Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.
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Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.
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We are to remember what an umpire Nature is; what a greatness, composure of depth and tolerance there is in her. You take wheat to cast into the Earth's bosom; your wheat may be mixed with chaff, chopped straw, barn-sweepings, dust and all imaginable rubbish; no matter: you cast it into the kind just Earth; she grows the wheat, - the whole rubbish she silently absorbs, shrouds it in, says nothing of the rubbish.
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Little other than a red tape Talking-machine, and unhappy Bag of Parliamentary Eloquence.
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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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Enjoying things which are pleasant; that is not the evil; it is the reducing of our moral self to slavery by them that is.
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Properly speaking, all true work is religion.
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Midas-eared Mammonism, double-barrelled Dilettantism, and their thousand adjuncts and corollaries, are not the Law by which God Almighty has appointed this His universe to go.
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Great souls are always loyally submissive, reverent to what is over them: only small mean souls are otherwise.
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Wonderful Force of Public Opinion! We must act and walk in all points as it prescribes; follow the traffic it bids us, realize the sum of money, the degree of influence it expects of us, or we shall be lightly esteemed; certain mouthfuls of articulate wind will be blown at us, and this what mortal courage can front?
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Beautiful it is, and a gleam from the same eternal pole-star visible amid the destinies of men, that all talent, all intellect, is in the first plane moral. What a world were this otherwise!
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How, without clothes, could we possess the master organ, soul's seat and true pineal gland of the body social--I mean a purse?
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Nothing ever happens but once in all this world. What I do now I do once for all. It is over and gone, with all its eternity of solemn meaning.
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Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.
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Worship of a hero is transcendent admiration of a great man.
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He who has no vision of eternity has no hold on time.
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Freedom is the one purport, wisely aimed at, or unwisely, of all man's struggles, toilings and sufferings, in this earth.
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The world is an old woman, and mistakes any gilt farthing for a gold coin; whereby being often cheated, she will thenceforth trust nothing but the common copper.
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I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
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Affectation is the product of falsehood.
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Prayer is and remains always a native and deepest impulse of the soul of man.
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Labor is life: from the inmost heart of the worker rises his God-given force, the sacred celestial life-essence breathed into him by Almighty God!
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The choking, sweltering, deadly, and killing rule of no rule; the consecration of cupidity and braying of folly, and dim stupidity and baseness, in most of the affairs of men. Slopshirts attainable three-halfpence cheaper by the ruin of living bodies and immortal souls.