Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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It is the feeling of injustice that is insupportable to all men.
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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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The best lesson which we get from the tragedy of Karbala is that Husain and his companions were rigid believers in God. They illustrated that the numerical superiority does not count when it comes to the truth and the falsehood. The victory of Husain, despite his minority, marvels me!
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Heroes, it would seem, exist always and a certain worship of them.
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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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Evil, once manfully fronted, ceases to be evil; there is generous battle-hope in place of dead, passive misery; the evil itself has become a kind of good.
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I call that Book of Job, apart from all theories about it, one of the grandest things ever written with pen.
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Look to be treated by others as you have treated others.
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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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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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The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.
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The vulgarity of inanimate things requires time to get accustomed to; but living, breathing, bustling, plotting, planning, human vulgarity is a species of moral ipecacuanha, enough to destroy any comfort.
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Man is a tool-using animal.
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Wealth of a man is the number of things which he loves and blesses which he is loved and blessed by.
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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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What unknown seas of feeling lie in man, and will from time to time break through!
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Men's hearts ought not to be set against one another, but set with one another and all against evil only.
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Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
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Shakespeare says, we are creatures that look before and after; the more surprising that we do not look around a little, and see what is passing under our very eyes.
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The hell of these days is the fear of not getting along, especially of not making money.
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Let him who gropes painfully in darkness or uncertain light, and prays vehemently that the dawn may ripen into day, lay this precept well to heart: "Do the duty which lies nearest to thee," which thou know to be a duty! Thy second duty will already have become clearer.
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The first duty of man is that of subduing fear.
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Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can.
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Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.