274 Quotations by Thomas Carlyle
- 241. There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quanti ...
- 242. There is often more spiritual force in a proverb than in whole philosophical systems.
- 243. There is precious instruction to be got by finding we were wrong. Let a man try faithfully, manfully ...
- 244. This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle wonderful, inscrutable, magical a ...
- 245. Thought is the parent of the deed.
- 246. Thought once awakened does not again slumber; unfolds itself into a System of Thought; grows, in man ...
- 247. To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, tha ...
- 248. To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will ope ...
- 249. Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to b ...
- 250. True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is lo ...
- 251. Under all speech that is good for anything, there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as ...
- 252. Variety is the condition of harmony.
- 253. Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
- 254. War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle.
- 255. We call it a Society; and go about professing openly the totalest separation, isolation. Our life is ...
- 256. We have our little theory on all human and divine things. Poetry, the workings of genius itself, whi ...
- 257. We were wise indeed, could we discern truly the signs of our own time; and by knowledge of its wants ...
- 258. Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
- 259. What are your historical facts; still more your biographical? Wilt thou know a man by stringing-toge ...
- 260. What we become depend on what we read after all the professors have finished with us. The greatest u ...
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