274 Quotations by Thomas Carlyle
- 21. Be not a slave of words.
- 22. Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness. He has a work, a life-purpos ...
- 23. But the whim we have of happiness is somewhat thus. By certain valuations, and averages, of our own ...
- 24. By nature, man hates change. Seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ...
- 25. Cash-payment is not the sole nexus of man with man.
- 26. Cash-payment never was or could, except for a few years be, the union-bond of man to man. Cash never ...
- 27. Clever men are good, but they are not the best.
- 28. Conclusive facts are inseparable from inconclusive except by a head that already understands and kno ...
- 29. Conviction, never so excellent, is worthless until it converts itself into conduct.
- 30. Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being.
- 31. Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.
- 32. Do the duty which lieth nearest to thee! Thy second duty will already have become clearer.
- 33. Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.
- 34. Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.
- 35. Enjoy things which are pleasant; that is not the evil: it is the reducing of our moral self to slave ...
- 36. Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.
- 37. Every noble work is, at first, impossible.
- 38. Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.
- 39. Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness; on the confi ...
- 40. Faith is loyalty to some inspired teacher, some spiritual hero.
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