When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.
THOMAS CARLYLEWhen the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.
THOMAS CARLYLEThere is precious instruction to be got by finding we were wrong.
THOMAS CARLYLENot what you possess but what you do with what you have, determines your true worth.
THOMAS CARLYLEA great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men.
THOMAS CARLYLEEvery day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will.
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 CARLYLEEvery noble work is at first impossible.
THOMAS CARLYLENo man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.
THOMAS CARLYLEWithout kindness there can be no true joy.
THOMAS CARLYLEThe first duty of man is that of subduing fear.
THOMAS CARLYLEWho is it that loves me and will love me forever with an affection which no chance, no misery, no crime of mine can do away? It is you, my mother.
THOMAS CARLYLEOf all God’s creatures, Man alone is poor.
THOMAS CARLYLEConviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.
THOMAS CARLYLELaughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.
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 CARLYLESee deep enough, and you see musically.
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