Democracy means despair of finding any heroes to govern you, and contented putting up with the want of them.
THOMAS CARLYLEDemocracy means despair of finding any heroes to govern you, and contented putting up with the want of them.
THOMAS CARLYLEWhatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do that with all thy might and leave the issues calmly to God.
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 CARLYLEOur grand business undoubtedly is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
THOMAS CARLYLESilence is more eloquent than words.
THOMAS CARLYLEHe who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.
THOMAS CARLYLEA person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.
THOMAS CARLYLEA person with a clear purpose will make progress, even on the roughest road. A person with no purpose will make no progress, even on the smoothest road.
THOMAS CARLYLESpeech is silver, silence is golden.
THOMAS CARLYLEWeak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
THOMAS CARLYLEEndurance is patience concentrated.
THOMAS CARLYLESilence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
THOMAS CARLYLEI’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
THOMAS CARLYLEOnce the mind has been expanded by a big idea, it will never go back to its original state.
THOMAS CARLYLEMusic is well said to be the speech of angels.
THOMAS CARLYLELove is not altogether a Delirium, says he elsewhere; “yet has it many points in common therewith.”
THOMAS CARLYLE