Thomas Carlyle

Thomas Carlyle

"Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragements, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak."
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"Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragements, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak."
Thomas Carlyle
"If you look deep enough you will see music the heart of nature being everywhere music."
Thomas Carlyle
"The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better."
Thomas Carlyle
"Work alone is noble."
Thomas Carlyle
"Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us."
Thomas Carlyle
"Blessed is he who has found his work let him ask no other blessedness."
Thomas Carlyle
"Be not a slave of words."
Thomas Carlyle
"True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper."
Thomas Carlyle
"Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius."
Thomas Carlyle
"He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything."
Thomas Carlyle
"Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand."
Thomas Carlyle
"The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green."
Thomas Carlyle
"He that can work is a born king of something."
Thomas Carlyle
"Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind."
Thomas Carlyle
"All work is seed sown. It grows and spreads and sows itself anew."
Thomas Carlyle
"Wonder is the basis of worship."
Thomas Carlyle
"A fair day's wages for a fair day's work: it is as just a demand as governed men ever made of government."
Thomas Carlyle
"The present is the living sum-total of the whole past."
Thomas Carlyle
"Of a truth men are mystically united: a mystic bond of brotherhood makes all men one."
Thomas Carlyle
"Speech is silvern silence is golden."
Thomas Carlyle
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