Speech is silver, silence is golden.
THOMAS CARLYLESpeech is silver, silence is golden.
THOMAS CARLYLEBlessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
THOMAS CARLYLEThe battle that never ends is the battle of belief against disbelief.
THOMAS CARLYLENo iron chain, or outward force of any kind, could ever compel the soul of man to believe or to disbelieve: it is his own indefeasible light, that judgment of his; he will reign and believe there by the grace of God alone!
THOMAS CARLYLEA person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.
THOMAS CARLYLEIf you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.
THOMAS CARLYLEHe who has no vision of eternity has no hold on time.
THOMAS CARLYLEShow me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.
THOMAS CARLYLEThey only are wise who know that they know nothing.
THOMAS CARLYLEThe block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.
THOMAS CARLYLEOne life; a little gleam of Time between two Eternities; no second chance to us for evermore!
THOMAS CARLYLEOnce the mind has been expanded by a big idea, it will never go back to its original state.
THOMAS CARLYLEThere can be no acting or doing of any kind till it be recognized that there is a thing to be done; the thing once recognized, doing in a thousand shapes becomes possible.
THOMAS CARLYLEIt is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.
THOMAS CARLYLEThe past is always attractive because it is drained of fear.
THOMAS CARLYLEWithout kindness there can be no true joy.
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