black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

A man lives by believing something.

Thomas 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 CARLYLE

Believe Force God Grace Himself Judgement Kind Soul
To say that we have a clear conscience is to utter a solecism; had we never sinned we should have had no conscience. Were defeat unknown, neither would victory be celebrated by songs of triumph.
THOMAS CARLYLE

Celebration Conscience Defeat Sin Song Success Victory
The eternal stars shine out again, so soon as it is dark enough.
THOMAS CARLYLE

Darkness Enough Forever Shine Stardom
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 CARLYLE

Book Collection Deep Greatness Knowledge Reading Teacher
A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.
THOMAS CARLYLE

Goal Incomplete Man
Stop a moment, cease your work, and look around you.
THOMAS CARLYLE

Moments Stop Yourself
Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.
THOMAS CARLYLE

Brave Help Person Yourself
Speech is silver, silence is golden.
THOMAS CARLYLE

Gold Silence Talk Worth
There 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 CARLYLE

Act Kind Possible Recognition
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 CARLYLE

Fall Notice Silence Tree
Without kindness there can be no true joy.
THOMAS CARLYLE

Joy Kindness One Liner True
There are but two ways of paying debt: Increase of industry in raising income, increase of thrift in laying out.
THOMAS CARLYLE

Money Pay Price Way
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 CARLYLE

Better Man Talk Wasted Yourself
There are remedies for all things but death.
THOMAS CARLYLE

Cure Death One Liner
Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.
THOMAS CARLYLE

Lie Path Way Work Yourself
Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.
THOMAS CARLYLE

Action Life Question True

A man lives by believing something.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

A man lives by believing something.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Thomas Carlyle Quotes