Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
THOMAS CARLYLESecrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
THOMAS CARLYLEA man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.
THOMAS CARLYLEThe past is always attractive because it is drained of fear.
THOMAS CARLYLEWhat we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
THOMAS CARLYLEIf Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it.
THOMAS CARLYLEOld age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.
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 CARLYLENo pressure, no diamonds.
THOMAS CARLYLEA laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy.
THOMAS CARLYLEA loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.
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 CARLYLEThe eternal stars shine out again, so soon as it is dark enough.
THOMAS CARLYLEA person with a clear purpose will make progress, even on the roughest road. A person with no purpose will make no progress, even on the smoothest road.
THOMAS CARLYLEStop a moment, cease your work, and look around you.
THOMAS CARLYLEThey only are wise who know that they know nothing.
THOMAS CARLYLEWork is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
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