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Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.


Thomas Carlyle

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ALAN CURBISHLEY I'm so ready to come back. That was a dreadful trip.
MODUPE ISHOLA There is no witness so dreadful, no accuser so terrible as the conscience that dwells in the heart o...
POLYBIUS Many people still feel so scared about spirit or ghost, not yet realizing that there are so many uni...
TOBA BETA A lion among ladies is a most dreadful thing.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE If everything was planned, it would be dreadful. If everything was unplanned, it would be equally dr...
ERROL MORRIS October was just a dreadful month.
BONNIE SMITH You know, what's so dreadful about dying is that you are completely on your own.
VLADIMIR NABOKOV Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing
PABLO PICASSO Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, thos...
JOHN DONNE Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so, For those...
JOHN DONNE Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.
JOSEPH ADDISON It was a dreadful mistake, a foolish experiment,
PETER JENNINGS The dreadful burden of having nothing to do.
NICHOLAS BOILEAU Wisdom is a dreadfully wonderful gift,giving you great insight but terrible pain that you learn from...
ROYAL CROMWELL What a dreadful thing it must be to have a dull father.
JIM DODGE There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE So comes a reck'ning when the banquet's o'er, The dreadful reckn'ning, and men smile no more.
JOHN GAY Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, thos...
JOHN DONNE The American story is a story of great moments and dreadful moments.
ALEXIS DENISOF How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong!
SOPHOCLES How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong
SOPHOCLES A young lady is a female child who has just done something dreadful.
JUDITH MARTIN A young lady is a female child who has just done something dreadful
JUDITH S. MARIN Single women have a dreadful propensity to being poor
JANE AUSTEN Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil's home for temptation and for...
ANNE BAXTER Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil's home for temptation and f...
ANNE BAXTER I seem to myself, as in a dream,
An accidental guest in this dreadful body.
ANNA AKHMATOVA It is dreadful that so many animals had to suffer in this case because of serious ongoing neglect.
PHIL WILSON Our hearts go out to you today as they did on that dreadful today.
PRINCE CHARLES Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness.
PABLO PICASSO Ah, good taste--What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness.
PABLO PICASSO This wallpaper is dreadful, one of us will have to go.
OSCAR WILDE There's more beauty in truth, even if it is dreadful beauty.
JOHN STEINBECK Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself.
OSCAR WILDE It is dreadful to see actors reproducing the same image constantly.
EMMANUELLE RIVA Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil's home for temptation and...
ANNE BAXTER This dreadful catastrophe plunges all France into mourning,
JACQUES CHIRAC But such as open their breast to unbelief on them is Wrath from Allah and theirs will be a dreadful ...
QURAN Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared to love in dreams.
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY Advice is like castor oil, easy to give, but dreadful to take.
JOSH BILLINGS No attribute of God is more dreadful to sinners than His holiness.
MATTHEW HENRY No attribute of God is more dreadful to sinners than His holiness
MATTHEW HENRY No, no! The adventures first, explanations take such a dreadful time.
LEWIS CARROLL No more Mrs. Nice Guy, she's such a dreadful bore./ I'm into vivisection, not polishing the floor.
AMANDA MCBROOM Lost in Hell,-Persephone,
Take her head upon your knee;
Say to her, "My dear, my dear,
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY What a dreadful thing it must be to have a dull father.
MARY MAPES DODGE The dreadful thing about getting older is you cry at the drop of a hat.
ERIC IDLE When the Second World War finished, I was 23, and already I had seen enough horror to last me a life...
CHRISTOPHER LEE This dreadful disaster plunges all of France into mourning,
JACQUES CHIRAC The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conq...
LUDWIG VON MISES For zeal's a dreadful termagant, That teaches saints to tear and cant.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) A lion among ladies is a most dreadful thing. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act iii. Sc. 1.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Advice is like castor oil, easy enough to give but dreadful uneasy to take.
JOSH BILLINGS The danger of success is that it makes us forget the world's dreadful injustice.
JULES RENARD Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dr...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Religious belief is without reason and without dignity, and its record is near-universally dreadful.
MARTIN AMIS It's a trading bounce. These stocks have been dreadful (performers) for several months.
JAMES MCKEAN It was dreadful. They tried to put the little redhead in a cage.
SARAH FERGUSON To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
GEORGE SANTAYANA It's dreadful what little things lead people to misunderstand each other.
L.M. MONTGOMERY Silently we went round and round,
And through each hollow mind
The memory of dreadful thin...
OSCAR WILDE I've been in so many good movies that I felt like nobody saw; it's a pretty dreadful feeling...
WOODY HARRELSON There is nothing more dreadful than having to go walking on one’s own on Monday.
THOMAS BERNHARD Wouldn't it be dreadful to live in a country where they didn't have tea?
NOëL COWARD We are exponentially better than we were on that dreadful September morning.
MAURA HARTY Life is both dreadful and wonderful. To practice meditation is to be in touch with both aspects.
THICH NHAT HANH True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is lo...
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MAURICE LINDSAY What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance.
JANE AUSTEN We got off to a dreadful start with the wicked deflection for their first goal,
TONY MOWBRAY What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance
JANE AUSTEN Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dread...
ALBERT CAMUS Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor o...
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ROBIN BIRLEY There may be civilians being used as human shields and at this point while it was dreadful, while it...
MARK KIMMITT Matilda told such dreadful lies It made one gasp and stretch one's eyes.
HILLAIRE BELLOC wants the dreadful, wants to stare down the human race's worst-case scenarios.
SALMAN RUSHDIE We do not have to become heroes overnight. Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, ...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT I just love writing. It's magical, it's somewhere else to go, it's somewhere much more d...
TANITH LEE How dreadful...to be caught up in a game and have no idea of the rules.
CAROLINE STEVERMER Luxury comes at a dreadful cost, and... the edges of a gold card can be very sharp.
JENNIFER SAGINOR The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the s...
ALBERT CAMUS For the eye of the intellect "sees in all objects what it brought with it the means of seeing." ...
THOMAS CARLYLE The lowest and vilest alleys of London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the sm...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE That day of wrath, that dreadful day, when heaven and earth shall pass away.
SIR WALTER SCOTT The pain caused to the parents by this dreadful sequence of events is unforgivable. I am deeply sorr...
ALAN MILBURN My character and good name are in my own keeping. Life with disgrace is dreadful. A glorious death i...
HORATIO NELSON In everything that you do, pause and ask yourself if death is a dreadful thing because it deprives y...
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MAUREEN JOHNSON The news today would've had to been pretty dreadful to push the stock down further.
ADRIAN DARLEY And when you stick on conversation's burrs, don't strew your pathway with those dreadful urs.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES And when you stick on conversation's burs, Don't strew your pathway with those dreadful urs.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, SR. How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be
When there's no help in truth!
SOPHOCLES How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in the truth.
SOPHOCLES This dreadful catastrophe plunges all of France into mourning, ... all the consequences can be drawn...
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One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO.
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THOMAS CARLYLE Respectable Professors of the Dismal Science.
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THOMAS CARLYLE His religion at best is an anxious wish,--like that of Rabelais, a great Perhaps.
THOMAS CARLYLE Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness; on the con...
THOMAS CARLYLE The eye sees what it brings the power to see.
THOMAS CARLYLE Violence does even justice unjustly.
THOMAS CARLYLE Midas-eared Mammonism, double-barrelled Dilettantism, and their thousand adjuncts and corollaries, ...
THOMAS CARLYLE The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.
THOMAS CARLYLE Youth is to all the glad reason of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, o...
THOMAS CARLYLE What is all Knowledge too but recorded Experience, and a product of History; of which, therefore, R...
THOMAS CARLYLE For love is ever the beginning of Knowledge, as fire is of light.
THOMAS CARLYLE A parliament speaking through reporters to Buncombe and the Twenty-seven millions, mostly fools.
THOMAS CARLYLE Great is journalism. Is not every able editor a ruler of the world, being the persuader of it?
THOMAS CARLYLE When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the...
THOMAS CARLYLE Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such: it is an accide...
THOMAS CARLYLE Scarcely two hundred years back can Fame recollect articulately at all; and there she but maunders ...
THOMAS CARLYLE To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will op...
THOMAS CARLYLE How much lies in Laughter: the cipher-key, wherewith we decipher the whole man.
THOMAS CARLYLE Even in the meanest sorts of labor, the whole soul of a man is composed into a kind of real harmon...
THOMAS CARLYLE What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with us. The greatest ...
THOMAS CARLYLE All comes out even at the end of the day.
THOMAS CARLYLE Day of wrath that day of burning, Seer and Sibyl speak concerning, All the world to ashes turn...
THOMAS CARLYLE My books are friends that never fail me."

(Letter to his mother, Margaret A. Carlyle THOMAS CARLYLE If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.
THOMAS CARLYLE One is hardly sensible of fatigue while he marches to music.
THOMAS CARLYLE Song is the heroics of speech.
THOMAS CARLYLE Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
THOMAS CARLYLE Cash-payment never was, or could except for a few years be, the union-bond of man to man. Cash never...
THOMAS CARLYLE Cash-payment is not the sole nexus of man with man.
THOMAS CARLYLE A fair day's wages for a fair day's work.
THOMAS CARLYLE The greatest of all faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.
THOMAS CARLYLE The past is all holy to us; the dead are all holy; even they that were wicked when alive.
THOMAS CARLYLE Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.
THOMAS CARLYLE Wonderful Force of Public Opinion! We must act and walk in all points as it prescribes; follow the t...
THOMAS CARLYLE Little other than a red tape Talking-machine, and unhappy Bag of Parliamentary Eloquence.
THOMAS CARLYLE It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.
THOMAS CARLYLE Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacle s, discouragement s, and impossibi...
THOMAS CARLYLE It is the unseen and the spiritual in people that determines the outward and the actual.
THOMAS CARLYLE Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.
THOMAS CARLYLE Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man
THOMAS CARLYLE The person who cannot laugh is not only ready for treason, and deceptions, their whole life is alrea...
THOMAS CARLYLE No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.
THOMAS CARLYLE In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have b...
THOMAS CARLYLE Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
THOMAS CARLYLE The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to g...
THOMAS CARLYLE But the whim we have of happiness is somewhat thus. By certain valuations, and averages, of our own ...
THOMAS CARLYLE Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance -- the cheerful man will do mor...
THOMAS CARLYLE Oh, give us the man who sings at his work.
THOMAS CARLYLE In private life I never knew anyone interfere with other people's disputes but he heartily repented ...
THOMAS CARLYLE Life is a little gleam of time between two eternity s.
THOMAS CARLYLE Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundre...
THOMAS CARLYLE Action hangs, as it were, dissolved in speech, in thoughts whereof speech is the shadow; and precipi...
THOMAS CARLYLE The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.
THOMAS CARLYLE Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.
THOMAS CARLYLE Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.
THOMAS CARLYLE Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
THOMAS CARLYLE No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the wor...
THOMAS CARLYLE Only perhaps in the United States, which alone of countries can do without governing,every man being...
THOMAS CARLYLE Of America it would ill beseem any Englishman, and me perhaps as little as another, to speak unkindl...
THOMAS CARLYLE Democracy will prevail when men believe the vote of Judas as good as that of Jesus Christ.
THOMAS CARLYLE The most unhappy of all men is the man who cannot tell what he is going to do, who has got no work c...
THOMAS CARLYLE Manhood begins when we have in any way made truce with Necessity; begins even when we have surrender...
THOMAS CARLYLE That a Parliament, especially a Parliament with Newspaper Reporters firmly established in it, is an ...
THOMAS CARLYLE Parliament will train you to talk; and above all things to hear, with patience, unlimited quantities...
THOMAS CARLYLE The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against unbelief.
THOMAS CARLYLE The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.
THOMAS CARLYLE Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct.
THOMAS CARLYLE No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to d...
THOMAS CARLYLE The dust of controversy is merely the falsehood flying off.
THOMAS CARLYLE Scepticism, as I said, is not intellectual only; it is moral also; a chronic atrophy and disease of ...
THOMAS CARLYLE Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to b...
THOMAS CARLYLE By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ...
THOMAS CARLYLE The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is st...
THOMAS CARLYLE The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.
THOMAS CARLYLE Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.
THOMAS CARLYLE Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of a man you are. It shows me what your ideal o...
THOMAS CARLYLE It is not a lucky word, this name impossible; no good comes of those who have it so often in their m...
THOMAS CARLYLE Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.
THOMAS CARLYLE Not our logical faculty, but our imaginative one is king over us. I might say, priest and prophet to...
THOMAS CARLYLE The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
THOMAS CARLYLE Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
THOMAS CARLYLE If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.
THOMAS CARLYLE What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greate...
THOMAS CARLYLE The fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself.
THOMAS CARLYLE Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.
THOMAS CARLYLE We have our little theory on all human and divine things. Poetry, the workings of genius itself, whi...
THOMAS CARLYLE No sadder proof can be given of a person's own tiny stature, than their disbelief in great people.
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THOMAS CARLYLE The whole past is the procession of the present.
THOMAS CARLYLE The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
THOMAS CARLYLE The devil has his elect.
THOMAS CARLYLE All evil is like a nightmare; the instant you stir under it, the evil is gone.
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THOMAS CARLYLE In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; ...
THOMAS CARLYLE A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.
THOMAS CARLYLE The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.
THOMAS CARLYLE Society is founded upon cloth.
THOMAS CARLYLE If the cut of the costume indicates intellect and talent, then the color indicates temper and heart.
THOMAS CARLYLE Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.
THOMAS CARLYLE Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of n...
THOMAS CARLYLE Wonder is the basis of worship.
THOMAS CARLYLE The first sin in our universe was Lucifer's self conceit.
THOMAS CARLYLE Silence is more eloquent than words.
THOMAS CARLYLE Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves.
THOMAS CARLYLE Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
THOMAS CARLYLE Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as E...
THOMAS CARLYLE When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silenc...
THOMAS CARLYLE Speech is of time, silence is of eternity.
THOMAS CARLYLE No sooner is your ocean filled, than he grumbles that it might have been of better vintage. Try him ...
THOMAS CARLYLE Man's unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him,...
THOMAS CARLYLE He that can work is born to be king of something.
THOMAS CARLYLE No age seemed the age of romance to itself.
THOMAS CARLYLE For suffering and enduring there is no remedy, but striving and doing.
THOMAS CARLYLE The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.
THOMAS CARLYLE It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered ...
THOMAS CARLYLE A fundamental mistake to call vehemence and rigidity strength! A man is not strong who takes convuls...
THOMAS CARLYLE The spiritual is the parent of the practical.
THOMAS CARLYLE No ghost was every seen by two pair of eyes.
THOMAS CARLYLE If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?
THOMAS CARLYLE The soul gives unity to what it looks at with love.
THOMAS CARLYLE History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in s...
THOMAS CARLYLE We call it a Society; and go about professing openly the totalest separation, isolation. Our life is...
THOMAS CARLYLE The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.
THOMAS CARLYLE The Great Man's sincerity is of the kind he cannot speak of, is not conscious of: nay, I suppose, he...
THOMAS CARLYLE All men, if they work not as in the great taskmaster's eye, will work wrong, and work unhappily for ...
THOMAS CARLYLE Cherish what is dearest while you have it near you, and wait not till it is far away. Blind and deaf...
THOMAS CARLYLE Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard wor...
THOMAS CARLYLE To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, tha...
THOMAS CARLYLE Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.
THOMAS CARLYLE A person usually has two reasons for doing something: a good reason and the real reason.
THOMAS CARLYLE Reality, if rightly interpreted, is grander than fiction.
THOMAS CARLYLE We were wise indeed, could we discern truly the signs of our own time; and by knowledge of its wants...
THOMAS CARLYLE Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what clearly lies at hand.
THOMAS CARLYLE Man is a tool-using Animal. Nowhere do you find him without tools; without tools he is nothing, with...
THOMAS CARLYLE Battles, in these ages, are transacted by mechanism; with the slightest possible development of huma...
THOMAS CARLYLE When we can drain the Ocean into mill-ponds, and bottle up the Force of Gravity, to be sold by retai...
THOMAS CARLYLE A man cannot make a pair of shoes rightly unless he do it in a devout manner.
THOMAS CARLYLE In a symbol there is concealment and yet revelation: here therefore, by silence and by speech acting...
THOMAS CARLYLE Let one who wants to move and convince others, first be convinced and moved themselves. If a person ...
THOMAS CARLYLE Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.
THOMAS CARLYLE The cut of a garment speaks of intellect and talent and the color of temperament and heart.
THOMAS CARLYLE Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of o...
THOMAS CARLYLE No conquest can ever become permanent which does not show itself beneficial to the conquered as well...
THOMAS CARLYLE Variety is the condition of harmony.
THOMAS CARLYLE I don't pretend to understand the Universe -- it's a great deal bigger than I am.
THOMAS CARLYLE Men's hearts ought not to be set against one another, but set with one another, and all against evil...
THOMAS CARLYLE No person was every rightly understood until they had been first regarded with a certain feeling, no...
THOMAS CARLYLE The world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was.
THOMAS CARLYLE It is a mathematical fact that the casting of this pebble from my hand alters the centre of gravity ...
THOMAS CARLYLE For man is not the creature and product of Mechanism; but, in a far truer sense, its creator and pro...
THOMAS CARLYLE Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man.
THOMAS CARLYLE Let each become all that he was created capable of being.
THOMAS CARLYLE The condition of the most passionate enthusiast is to be preferred over the individual who, because ...
THOMAS CARLYLE If there be no enemy there's no fight. If no fight, no victory and if no victory there is no crown.
THOMAS CARLYLE The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.
THOMAS CARLYLE Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.
THOMAS CARLYLE Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.
THOMAS CARLYLE Clever men are good, but they are not the best.
THOMAS CARLYLE Pin your faith to no ones sleeves, haven't you two eyes of your own.
THOMAS CARLYLE I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
THOMAS CARLYLE The actual well seen is ideal.
THOMAS CARLYLE Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
THOMAS CARLYLE For the superior morality, of which we hear so much, we too would desire to be thankful: at the same...
THOMAS CARLYLE The eternal stars shine out as soon as it is dark enough.
THOMAS CARLYLE The depth of our despair measures what capability and height of claim we have to hope.
THOMAS CARLYLE The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak becomes a stepping-stone in th...
THOMAS CARLYLE There are but two ways of paying debt: Increase of industry in raising income, increase of thrift in...
THOMAS CARLYLE Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil; for which reason I have long since a...
THOMAS CARLYLE The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconsciou...
THOMAS CARLYLE Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can ...
THOMAS CARLYLE Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.
THOMAS CARLYLE History is the distillation of rumor.
THOMAS CARLYLE Stern accuracy in inquiring, bold imagination in describing, these are the cogs on which history soa...
THOMAS CARLYLE Heroism is the divine relation which, in all times, unites a great man to other men.
THOMAS CARLYLE Hero-worship is the deepest root of all; the tap-root, from which in a great degree all the rest wer...
THOMAS CARLYLE All sorts of Heroes are intrinsically of the same material; that given a great soul, open to the Div...
THOMAS CARLYLE The hell of these days is the fear of not getting along, especially of not making money.
THOMAS CARLYLE The heart always sees before than the head can see.
THOMAS CARLYLE Ill-health, of body or of mind, is defeat. Health alone is victory. Let all men, if they can manage ...
THOMAS CARLYLE A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
THOMAS CARLYLE History is the essence of innumerable biographies.
THOMAS CARLYLE If those gentlemen would let me alone I should be much obliged to them. I would say, as Shakespeare ...
THOMAS CARLYLE No sooner does a great man depart, and leave his character as public property, than a crowd of littl...
THOMAS CARLYLE Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.
THOMAS CARLYLE Even in the meanest sorts of labor, the whole soul of a man is composed into a kind of real harmony ...
THOMAS CARLYLE For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities ...
THOMAS CARLYLE The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall.
THOMAS CARLYLE The Mystic Bond of Brotherhood makes all men one.
THOMAS CARLYLE No violent extreme endures.
THOMAS CARLYLE What are your historical Facts; still more your biographical? Wilt thou know a man by stringing-toge...
THOMAS CARLYLE I grow daily to honor facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a gr...
THOMAS CARLYLE Conclusive facts are inseparable from inconclusive except by a head that already understands and kno...
THOMAS CARLYLE Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
THOMAS CARLYLE No good book or good thing of any kind shows it best face at first. No the most common quality of in...
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