Thomas CarlyleSuccess in life, in anything, depends upon the number of persons that one can make himself agreeable to.371Life
Thomas CarlyleNo age seemed the age of romance to itself.361Love
Thomas CarlyleWeak eyes are fondest of glittering objects. ✨ Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (1900). The Works of Thomas Carlyle: Critical and miscellaneous essays372Humor
Thomas CarlyleDoubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone. ✨ Thomas Carlyle (2014). The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle, p.397, Lulu.com361Hope
Thomas CarlyleBiography is the most universally pleasant and profitable of all reading.361Reading
Thomas CarlyleVariety is the condition of harmony.362Life
Thomas CarlyleIt is not a lucky word, this name impossible; no good comes of those who have it so often in their mouths.351Time
Thomas CarlyleEvery man is my superior in that I may learn from him.362Reading
Thomas CarlyleWondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it; better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or… ▶362PoliticsSadnessTime
Thomas CarlyleWoe to him that claims obedience when it is not due; woe to him that refuses it when it is. ✨ Thomas Carlyle (2014). The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle, p.228, Lulu.com362Death
Thomas CarlyleOf a truth, men are mystically united: a mystic bond of brotherhood makes all men one. ✨ Thomas Carlyle (1881). Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: Collected and Republished,… ▶352Truth
Thomas CarlyleThe fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself. ✨ Thomas Carlyle (1831). Sartor Resartus: The life and opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh in three books: By Thomas Carlyle, p.114<… ▶352LifeReading
Thomas CarlyleA man's perfection is his work.341Love
Thomas CarlyleFriendship, in the old heroic sense of that term, no longer exists. It is in reality no longer expected or recognized as a virtue among men. ✨ Thomas Carlyle (1897). The Wor… ▶375Truth
Thomas CarlyleWhy tell me that a man is a fine speaker, if it is not the truth that he is speaking? ✨ John Stuart Mill, Thomas Carlyle (2010). Autobiography of J.S. Mill & on Liberty; Cha… ▶375Truth
Thomas CarlyleMen's hearts ought not to be set against one another, but set with one another and all against evil only. ✨ Thomas Carlyle (1870). Past and Present, p.21331LoveTime
Thomas CarlyleVirtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.364Love
Thomas CarlyleAll true work is sacred. In all true work, were it but true hand work, there is something of divineness. Labor, wide as the earth, has its summit in Heaven. ✨ Thomas Carlyle… ▶342TimeTruth
Thomas CarlyleThere is but one thing without honor, smitten with eternal barrenness, inability to do or to be,-insincerity, unbelief. ✨ Thomas Carlyle (1884). Miscellaneous essays375Reflection
Thomas CarlyleLet him who would move and convince others, be first moved and convinced himself. ✨ Essay on Burns.365Time
Thomas CarlyleThe lightning spark of thought generated in the solitary mind awakens its likeness in another mind.332Thought
Thomas CarlyleToday is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever ne… ▶376HopeSadnessThought
Thomas CarlyleEverywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness on the confines of two everlasting empires, - Necessity and Free Will. ✨ Essays on Goe… ▶343HumanityReading
Thomas CarlyleSilence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time. ✨ 'Critical and Miscellaneous Essays' (1838) 'Sir Walter Scott'.365Time
Thomas CarlyleThe world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was. ✨ Thomas Carlyle, Brendan King (1993). The Sayings of Thomas Carlyle, p.57, Lulu.com332Humanity
Thomas CarlyleThe real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall.354Politics
Thomas CarlyleThe old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.321Philosophy
Thomas CarlyleA man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.354Life
Thomas CarlyleThere are female dandies as well as clothes-wearing men; and the former are as objectionable as the latter.366Death
Thomas CarlyleInfinite is the help man can yield to man. ✨ Thomas Carlyle (1840). Sartor Reartus: The Life and Opinions of Her Teufelsdrockh : in Three Books, p.301311LifeReading
