Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
THOMAS CARLYLEBlessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
THOMAS CARLYLEEgotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.
THOMAS CARLYLEA well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
THOMAS CARLYLEThe soul gives unity to what it looks at with love.
THOMAS CARLYLETell a person they are brave and you help them become so.
THOMAS CARLYLENothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It’s a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment.
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 CARLYLEOur grand business undoubtedly is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
THOMAS CARLYLEWeak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
THOMAS CARLYLEThe world is a thing that a man must learn to despise, and even to neglect, before he can learn to reverence it, and work in it and for it.
THOMAS CARLYLEPopular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.
THOMAS CARLYLEToday is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.
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 CARLYLEConviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.
THOMAS CARLYLEA well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
THOMAS CARLYLEHe who has no vision of eternity has no hold on time.
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