Thomas Carlyle

Thomas Carlyle

"If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it."
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"If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it."
Thomas Carlyle
"All that mankind has done, thought, gained, or been; it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books."
Thomas Carlyle
"What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books."
Thomas Carlyle On Heroes, Hero Worship and the Heroic in History
"Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone."
Thomas Carlyle
"In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government."
Thomas Carlyle
"Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding."
Thomas Carlyle
"Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious."
Thomas Carlyle
"Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world."
Thomas Carlyle
"The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully."
Thomas Carlyle
"The fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself."
Thomas Carlyle
"The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then."
Thomas Carlyle
"The eye sees what it brings the power to see."
Thomas Carlyle
"No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men."
Thomas Carlyle
"There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune."
Thomas Carlyle
"Clever men are good, but they are not the best."
Thomas Carlyle
"Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time."
Thomas Carlyle
"The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion."
Thomas Carlyle
"It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five."
Thomas Carlyle
"Endurance is patience concentrated."
Thomas Carlyle
"Wondrous 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 sullen."
Thomas Carlyle
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