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The latest gospel in this world is, know thy work and do it.
— Thomas Carlyle
To know, to get into the truth of anything, is ever a mystic art, of which the best logic's can but babble on the surface.
— Thomas Carlyle
Well at ease are the Sleepers for whom Existence is a shallow Dream.
— Thomas Carlyle
One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO.
— Thomas Carlyle
Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
— Thomas Carlyle
Whose school-hours are all the days and nights of our existence.
— Thomas Carlyle
Caution is the lower story of prudence.
— Thomas Carlyle
To the vulgar eye, few things are wonderful that are not distant
— Thomas Carlyle
France was long a despotism tempered by epigrams.
— Thomas Carlyle
A fair day's wage for a fair day's work: it is as just a demand as governed men ever made of governing. It is the everlasting right of man.
— Thomas Carlyle
Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
— Thomas Carlyle
Pin your faith to no ones sleeves, haven't you two eyes of your own.
— Thomas Carlyle
Is there no God, then, but at best an absentee God, sitting idle, ever since the first Sabbath, at the outside of his Universe?
— Thomas Carlyle
Wealth of a man is the number of things which he loves and blesses which he is loved and blessed by.
— Thomas Carlyle
The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.
— Thomas Carlyle
No ghost was every seen by two pair of eyes.
— Thomas Carlyle
A collection of books is the best of all universities.
— Thomas Carlyle
After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books.
— Thomas Carlyle
I call the book of Job, apart from all theories about it, one of the grandest things ever written with the pen.
— Thomas Carlyle
If 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 Carlyle
At the bottom there is no perfect history; there is none such conceivable. All past centuries have rotted down, and gone confusedly dumb and quiet.
— Thomas Carlyle
Great souls are always loyally submissive, reverent to what is over them: only small mean souls are otherwise.
— Thomas Carlyle
Do not be embarrassed by your mistakes. Nothing can teach us better than our understanding of them. This is one of the best ways of self-education.
— Thomas Carlyle
The whole universe is but a huge Symbol of god".
— Thomas Carlyle
Fire is the best of servants, but what a master!
— Thomas Carlyle
Clever men are good, but they are not the best.
— Thomas Carlyle
What you see, but can't see over is as good as infinite.
— Thomas Carlyle
Let me have my own way in exactly everything and a sunnier and pleasanter creature does not exist.
— Thomas Carlyle
No country can find eternal peace and comfort where the vote of Judas Iscariot is as good as the vote of the Saviour of mankind.
— Thomas Carlyle
Earnestness alone makes life eternity.
— Thomas Carlyle
Skepticism means, not intellectual doubt alone, but moral doubt.
— Thomas Carlyle
Conclusive facts are inseparable from inconclusive except by a head that already understands and knows.
— Thomas Carlyle
Pain was not given thee merely to be miserable under; learn from it, turn it to account.
— Thomas Carlyle
Laughter means sympathy.
— Thomas Carlyle
Music ... a kind of inarticulate, unfathomable speech, which leads to the edge of the Infinite.
— Thomas Carlyle
The actual well seen is ideal.
— Thomas Carlyle
They wrong man greatly who say he is to be seduced by ease. Difficulty, abnegation, martyrdom, death are the allurements that act on the heart of man.
— Thomas Carlyle
No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
— Thomas Carlyle
Is man's civilization only a wrappage, through which the savage nature of him can still burst, infernal as ever?
— Thomas Carlyle
A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
— Thomas Carlyle
