Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
THOMAS CARLYLEWork is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
THOMAS CARLYLEOur grand business undoubtedly is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
THOMAS CARLYLEThere is precious instruction to be got by finding we were wrong.
THOMAS CARLYLEEgotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.
THOMAS CARLYLEA man protesting against error is on the way towards uniting himself with all men that believe in truth.
THOMAS CARLYLELove is not altogether a Delirium, says he elsewhere; “yet has it many points in common therewith.”
THOMAS CARLYLEA person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.
THOMAS CARLYLEHistory: A distillation of rumor.
THOMAS CARLYLEPopular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.
THOMAS CARLYLEIt’s a man’s sincerity and depth of vision that makes him a poet.
THOMAS CARLYLEWhen the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.
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 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 CARLYLEOf all God’s creatures, Man alone is poor.
THOMAS CARLYLEA laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy.
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.
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