Speech is silver, silence is golden.
THOMAS CARLYLESpeech is silver, silence is golden.
THOMAS CARLYLEWithout kindness there can be no true joy.
THOMAS CARLYLEOur grand business undoubtedly is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
THOMAS CARLYLEFoolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.
THOMAS CARLYLEThe merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.
THOMAS CARLYLEEndurance is patience concentrated.
THOMAS CARLYLEIt is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe.
THOMAS CARLYLEOne monster there is in the world, the idle man.
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 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 CARLYLEA man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.
THOMAS CARLYLEA person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.
THOMAS CARLYLETeach a parrot the terms ‘supply and demand’ and you’ve got an economist.
THOMAS CARLYLEOf all God’s creatures, Man alone is poor.
THOMAS CARLYLEA well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
THOMAS CARLYLEHistory: A distillation of rumor.
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