In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment.
THOMAS CARLYLEIn every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment.
THOMAS CARLYLEA person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.
THOMAS CARLYLEWriting is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.
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 CARLYLELaughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.
THOMAS CARLYLEDemocracy means despair of finding any heroes to govern you, and contented putting up with the want of them.
THOMAS CARLYLEThere are remedies for all things but death.
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 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 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 CARLYLEMusic is well said to be the speech of angels.
THOMAS CARLYLEA well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
THOMAS CARLYLEThere is precious instruction to be got by finding we were wrong.
THOMAS CARLYLEThe battle that never ends is the battle of belief against disbelief.
THOMAS CARLYLEA loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.
THOMAS CARLYLENo man sees far, most see no farther than their noses.
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