Who 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 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 CARLYLEWeak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
THOMAS CARLYLEDo the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.
THOMAS CARLYLEOf all your troubles, great and small, the greatest are the ones that don’t happen at all.
THOMAS CARLYLESee deep enough, and you see musically.
THOMAS CARLYLEDo nothing, only keep agitating, debating; and things will destroy themselves.
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 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 CARLYLEBlessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
THOMAS CARLYLEThe first duty of man is that of subduing fear.
THOMAS CARLYLEThe world is a thing that a man must learn to despise, and even to neglect, before he can learn to reverence it, and work in it and for it.
THOMAS CARLYLEWeak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
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 CARLYLEI’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
THOMAS CARLYLEThe block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.
THOMAS CARLYLENothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It’s a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment.
THOMAS CARLYLE