Thomas Carlyle

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."
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"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
"Here hath been dawning another blue day: think wilt thou let it slip useless away?"
Thomas Carlyle
"Man is a tool-using animal."
Thomas Carlyle
"We arc the miracle of miracles the great inscrutable mystery of God."
Thomas Carlyle
"Love is ever the beginning of Knowledge as fire is of light."
Thomas Carlyle
"One life - a little gleam of Time between two Eternities."
Thomas Carlyle
"The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer but rather what they miss."
Thomas Carlyle
"The man who cannot laugh is not only fit for treasons strategems and spoils but his whole life is already a treason and a stratagem."
Thomas Carlyle
"Macaulay is well for awhile but one wouldn't live under Niagara."
Thomas Carlyle
"Burke said there were Three Estates in Parliament but in the Reporters' gallery yonder there sat a Fourth Estate more important far than they all."
Thomas Carlyle
"It is the heart always that sees before the head can see."
Thomas Carlyle
"Nine-tenths of the miseries and vices of mankind proceed from idleness."
Thomas Carlyle
"History a distillation of rumor"
Thomas Carlyle
"Hero-worship exists has existed and will forever exist universally among mankind."
Thomas Carlyle
"Without kindness there can be no true joy."
Thomas Carlyle
"Blessed is he who has found his work let him ask no other blessedness. He has a work a life-purpose. ... Get your happiness out of your work or you will never know what real happiness is. ... Even in the meanest sorts of labor the whole soul of a man is composed into a kind of real harmony the instant he sets himself to work."
Thomas Carlyle
"No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men."
Thomas Carlyle
"Innumerable are the illusions and legerdemain tricks of custom: but of all these perhaps the cleverest is her knack of persuading us that the miraculous by simple repetition ceases to be miraculous."
Thomas Carlyle
"In the long run every government is the exact symbol of its people with their wisdom and unwisdom."
Thomas Carlyle
"Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight."
Thomas Carlyle
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