Thomas Carlyle on honor
Thomas Carlyle101 quotes“Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.”
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Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
Thomas CarlyleThomas Carlyle Do nothing, only keep agitating, debating; and things will destroy themselves.
Thomas CarlyleThomas Carlyle If 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 CarlyleThomas Carlyle What 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 CarlyleThomas Carlyle Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
Thomas CarlyleThomas Carlyle Our grand business undoubtedly is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
Thomas CarlyleThomas Carlyle Experience is the best of school masters, only the school fees are heavy.
Thomas CarlyleThomas Carlyle A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men.
Thomas CarlyleThomas Carlyle You can make even a parrot into a learned political economist – all he must learn are the two words “supply” and “demand.”
Thomas CarlyleThomas Carlyle Foolish 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 CarlyleThomas Carlyle Of all God’s creatures, Man alone is poor.
Thomas CarlyleThomas Carlyle Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do that with all thy might and leave the issues calmly to God.
Thomas CarlyleThomas Carlyle No 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 CarlyleThomas Carlyle Every noble work is at first impossible.
Thomas CarlyleThomas Carlyle No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.
Thomas CarlyleThomas Carlyle A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.
Thomas CarlyleThomas Carlyle
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Radhanath SwamiRadhanath Swami When we are honoured for a thing, we become attached to that thing.
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