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Quotes - Carlyle


All comes out even at the end of the day.

Thomas Carlyle

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.

Jane Welsh Carlyle

The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak becomes a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.

Thomas Carlyle

Every noble work is at first impossible.

Thomas Carlyle

The fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself.

Thomas Carlyle

What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is the collection of books.

Thomas Carlyle

Endurance is patience concentrated.

Thomas Carlyle

Providence has given to the French the empire of the land, to the English that of the sea, to the Germans that of--the air!

Thomas Carlyle

A certain man has called us, "of all peoples the wisest in action," but he added, "the stupidest in speech."

Thomas Carlyle

This Mirabeau's work, then is done. He sleeps with the primeval giants. He has gone over to the majority: "Abiit ad plures."

Thomas Carlyle

In every object there is inexhaustible meaning; the eye sees in it what the eye brings means of seeing.

Thomas Carlyle

Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.

Thomas Carlyle

To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes.

Thomas Carlyle

Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such: it is an accident, not a property of a man.

Thomas Carlyle

Scarcely two hundred years back can Fame recollect articulately at all; and there she but maunders and mumbles.

Thomas Carlyle

When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.

Thomas Carlyle

After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.

Thomas Carlyle

The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.

Thomas Carlyle

The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.

Thomas Carlyle

Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.

Thomas Carlyle

Genius . . . means the transcendent capacity of taking trouble.

Thomas Carlyle

No good Book, or good thing of any sort, shows its best face at first.

Thomas Carlyle

In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government.

Thomas Carlyle

It is a mathematical fact that the casting of this pebble from my hand alters the centre of gravity of the universe.

Thomas Carlyle

We have not the love of greatness, but the love of the love of greatness.

Thomas Carlyle

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