Thomas Carlyle Quotes
No pressure, no diamonds.
Thomas CarlyleThomas Carlyle History: A distillation of rumor.
Thomas CarlyleThomas Carlyle Just in the ratio knowledge increases, faith decreases.
Thomas CarlyleThomas Carlyle The soul gives unity to what it looks at with love.
Thomas CarlyleThomas Carlyle 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.
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