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 CARLYLEIf 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 CARLYLELove is not altogether a Delirium, says he elsewhere; “yet has it many points in common therewith.”
THOMAS CARLYLEJust in the ratio knowledge increases, faith decreases.
THOMAS CARLYLETeach a parrot the terms ‘supply and demand’ and you’ve got an economist.
THOMAS CARLYLEPopular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.
THOMAS CARLYLEOne monster there is in the world, the idle man.
THOMAS CARLYLEThe first duty of man is that of subduing fear.
THOMAS CARLYLEThe merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man; whatsoever he believes, he believes it for himself, not for another.
THOMAS CARLYLEA great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men.
THOMAS CARLYLENot what you possess but what you do with what you have, determines your true worth.
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 CARLYLEHe who has no vision of eternity has no hold on time.
THOMAS CARLYLEThere are remedies for all things but death.
THOMAS CARLYLEA loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.
THOMAS CARLYLEHe who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.
THOMAS CARLYLEOf all your troubles, great and small, the greatest are the ones that don’t happen at all.
THOMAS CARLYLE