274 Quotations by Thomas Carlyle
- 41. Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such; it is an accident ...
- 42. Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but onl ...
- 43. For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities ...
- 44. For man is not the creature and product of Mechanism; but, in a far truer sense, its creator and pro ...
- 45. For suffering and enduring there is no remedy, but striving and doing.
- 46. For the "superior morality," of which we hear so much, we too would desire to be thankful: at the sa ...
- 47. France was a long despotism tempered by epigrams.
- 48. Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.
- 49. Give me a man who sings at his work.
- 50. Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of o ...
- 51. Great men are the commissioned guides of mankind, who rule their fellows because they are wiser.
- 52. Happy are the people whose annals are blank in history books
- 53. He that can work is born to be king of something.
- 54. He that has done nothing has known nothing.
- 55. Here hath been dawning another blue day: think, wilt thou let it slip useless away?
- 56. Heroism is the divine relation which, in all times, unites a great man to other men.
- 57. History is the distillation of rumor.
- 58. History is the essence of innumerable biographies.
- 59. History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in s ...
- 60. I call the book of Job, apart from all theories about it, one of the grandest things ever written wi ...
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