Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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One monster there is in the world, the idle man.
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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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History is a mighty dramos, enacted upon the theatre of times, with suns for lamps and eternity for a background.
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Heroes, it would seem, exist always and a certain worship of them.
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Work earnestly at anything, you will by degrees learn to work at all things.
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Stop a moment, cease your work, and look around you.
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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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The genuine essence of truth never dies.
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And man's little Life has Duties that are great, that are alone great, and go up to Heaven and down to Hell.
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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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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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All evil is like a nightmare; the instant you stir under it, the evil is gone.
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Evil and good are everywhere, like shadow and substance; inseparable (for men) yet not hostile, only opposed.
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All men, if they work not as in the great taskmaster's eye, will work wrong, and work unhappily for themselves and for you.
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Biography is the only true history.
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Let him who would move and convince others, be first moved and convinced himself.
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Histories are a kind of distilled newspapers.
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There are but two ways of paying debt: Increase of industry in raising income, increase of thrift in laying out.
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Genuine Work alone, what thou workest faithfully, that is eternal, as the Almighty Founder and World-Builder himself.
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To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes.
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In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment.
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What you see, but can't see over is as good as infinite.
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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.