Thomas Carlyle

Thomas Carlyle

"Every noble crown is and on earth will ever be a crown of thorns."
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"Every noble crown is and on earth will ever be a crown of thorns."
Thomas Carlyle
"Skepticism means not intellectual doubt alone but moral doubt."
Thomas Carlyle
"Silence is more eloquent than words."
Thomas Carlyle
"Silence is deep as Eternity speech shallow as Time."
Thomas Carlyle
"Every noble crown is and on Earth will forever be a crown of thorns."
Thomas Carlyle
"All reform except a moral one will prove unavailing."
Thomas Carlyle
"Of all the paths a man could strike into there is at any given moment a best path ... a thing which here and now it were of all things wisest for him to do ... to find this path and walk in it is the one thing needful for him."
Thomas Carlyle
"The great law of culture: Let each become all that he was created capable of being."
Thomas Carlyle
"His religion at best is an anxious wish - like that of Rebelais a great Perhaps."
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 him."
Thomas Carlyle
"All work of man is as the swimmer's: a vast ocean threatens to devour him if he front it not bravely it will keep its word."
Thomas Carlyle
"The block of granite which was an obstacle in the path of the weak becomes a stepping stone in the path of the strong."
Thomas Carlyle
"Every noble work is at first impossible."
Thomas Carlyle
"Poetry therefore we will call Musical Thought."
Thomas Carlyle
"Love is not altogether a delirium yet it has many points in common therewith."
Thomas Carlyle
"Time is the silent never-resting thing ... rolling rushing on swift silent like an all-embracing oceantide on which we and all the universe swim."
Thomas Carlyle
"Our grand business undoubtedly is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand."
Thomas Carlyle
"Burke said there were three Estates in Parliament but in the reporters' gallery yonder there sat a fourth Estate more important than them all."
Thomas Carlyle
"When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with its fall but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze."
Thomas Carlyle
"Music is well said to be the speech of angels."
Thomas Carlyle
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