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In every object there is inexhaustible meaning; the eye sees in it what the eye brings means of seeing.
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In our wide world there is but one altogether fatal personage, the dunce,--he that speaks irrationally, that sees not, and yet thinks he sees.
Thomas Carlyle
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All greatness is unconscious, or it is little and naught.
Thomas Carlyle -
Produce, produce! Were it but the pitifulest, infinitesimal fraction of a product, produce it in God's name. 'Tis the utmost thou hast in thee? Out with it then! Up, up! Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy whole might.
Thomas Carlyle -
We do everything by custom, even believe by it; our very axioms, let us boast of free-thinking as we may, are oftenest simply such beliefs as we have never heard questioned.
Thomas Carlyle -
Rest is a fine medicine. Let your stomachs rest, ye dyspeptics; let your brain rest, you wearied and worried people of business; let your limbs rest, ye children of toil!
Thomas Carlyle -
To the vulgar eye, few things are wonderful that are not distant.
Thomas Carlyle -
There is a perennial nobleness, and even sacredness, in work. Were he never so benighted, forgetful of his high calling, there is always hope in a man that actually and earnestly works: in idleness alone there is perpetual despair.
Thomas Carlyle
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Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.
Thomas Carlyle -
One life; a little gleam of Time between two Eternities; no second chance to us for evermore!
Thomas Carlyle -
So much of truth, only under an ancient obsolete vesture, but the spirit of it still true, do I find in the Paganism of old nations. Nature is still divine, the revelation of the workings of God; the Hero is still worshipable: this, under poor cramped incipient forms, is what all Pagan religions have struggled, as they could, to set forth.
Thomas Carlyle -
Respectable Professors of the Dismal Science.
Thomas Carlyle -
The true Sovereign of the world, who moulds the world like soft wax, according to his pleasure, is he who lovingly sees into the world.
Thomas Carlyle -
All human souls, never so bedarkened, love light; light once kindled spreads till all is luminous.
Thomas Carlyle
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It is now almost my sole rule of life to clear myself of cants and formulas, as of poisonous Nessus shirts.
Thomas Carlyle -
Happy season of childhood! Kind Nature, that art to all a bountiful mother; that visitest the poor man's hut With auroral radiance; and for thy nursling hast provided a soft swathing of love and infinite hope wherein he waxes and slumbers, danced round by sweetest dreams!
Thomas Carlyle -
The leafy blossoming present time springs from the whole past, remembered and unrememberable.
Thomas Carlyle -
In the true Literary Man there is thus ever, acknowledged or not by the world, a sacredness: he is the light of the world; the world's Priest; -- guiding it, like a sacred Pillar of Fire, in its dark pilgrimage through the waste of Time.
Thomas Carlyle -
The fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself.
Thomas Carlyle -
Out of the lowest depths there is a path to the loftiest heights.
Thomas Carlyle
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Great men are the modelers, patterns, and in a wide sense creators, of whatsoever the general mass of men contrived to do and attain.
Thomas Carlyle -
The Builder of this Universe was wise, He plann'd all souls, all systems, planets, particles: The Plan He shap'd all Worlds and Æons by, Was-Heavens!-was thy small Nine-and-thirty Articles!
Thomas Carlyle -
Not what you possess but what you do with what you have, determines your true worth.
Thomas Carlyle -
Venerable to me is the hard hand,--crooked, coarse,--wherein, notwithstanding, lies a cunning virtue, indispensably royal as of the sceptre of the planet.
Thomas Carlyle