The past is always attractive because it is drained of fear.
THOMAS CARLYLESecrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
More Thomas Carlyle Quotes
-
-
Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.
THOMAS CARLYLE -
Not what you possess but what you do with what you have, determines your true worth.
THOMAS CARLYLE -
Once the mind has been expanded by a big idea, it will never go back to its original state.
THOMAS CARLYLE -
A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.
THOMAS CARLYLE -
Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.
THOMAS CARLYLE -
The eternal stars shine out again, so soon as it is dark enough.
THOMAS CARLYLE -
Of all your troubles, great and small, the greatest are the ones that don’t happen at all.
THOMAS CARLYLE -
They only are wise who know that they know nothing.
THOMAS CARLYLE -
I’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
THOMAS CARLYLE -
A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.
THOMAS CARLYLE -
Do nothing, only keep agitating, debating; and things will destroy themselves.
THOMAS CARLYLE -
There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.
THOMAS CARLYLE -
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 CARLYLE -
A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
THOMAS CARLYLE -
Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.
THOMAS CARLYLE