Quotes
Quotes - Carlyle
Lord Bacon could as easily have created the planets as he could have written Hamlet.
Can there be a more horrible object in existence than an eloquent man not speaking the truth?
It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe.
It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe.
Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.
Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
Our grandly business undoubtedly is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new.
Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
No nobler feeling than this, of admiration for one higher than himself, dwells in the breast of man. It is to this hour, and at all hours, the vivifying influence in man's life.
Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.
Never does one feel oneself so utterly helpless as in trying to speak comfort for great bereavement. I will not try it. Time is the only comforter for the loss of a mother.
The true University of these days is a Collection of Books.
The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.
To-day is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our Works and Thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed, is painful; yet ever needful; and if Memory have its force and worth, so also has Hope.
We are firm believers in the maxim that, for all right judgment of any man or thing, it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.
Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the architect of circumstance. It is character which builds an existence out of circumstance. From the same materials one man builds palaces, another hovels; one warehouses, another villas; bricks and mortar are mortar and bricks until the architect can make them something else.
Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance--the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it ;better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.
The three great elements of modern civilization, Gunpowder, Printing, and the Protestant Religion.
Clever men are good, but they are not the best.
The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.
We do everything by custom, even believe by it; our very axioms, let us boast of free-thinking as we may, are oftenest simply such beliefs as we have never heard questioned.
Is not every meanest day the confluence of two eternities?
So here hath been dawning Another blue day; Think, wilt thou let it Slip useless away? Out of eternity This new day is born, Into eternity At night will return.
Day of wrath that day of burning, Seer and Sibyl speak concerning, All the world to ashes turning. [Lat., Dies irae, dies illa! Solvet saeclum in favilla, Teste David cum Sybilla.]
