Thomas Carlyle
"Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness; on the confines of two everlasting empires, necessity and free will."
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"Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness; on the confines of two everlasting empires, necessity and free will."
"تتراءى الروح البشرية في كل مكان، قائمةً بين نصف كرة من النور وآخر من الظلام؛ على تخوم إمبراطوريتين أزليتين: الضرورة والإرادة الحرة."
Thomas Carlyle
"Of all your troubles, great and small, the greatest are the ones that don't happen at all."
"إن أعظم متاعبك، كبيرها وصغيرها، هي تلك التي لا تحدث أبدًا."
Thomas Carlyle
"I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom."
"لدي طموح عظيم أن أموت من الإرهاق لا من الملل."
Thomas Carlyle
"Thus must the bewildered Wanderer stand, as so many have done, shouting question after question into the Sibyl-cave of Destiny, and receive no Answer but an Echo. It is all a grim howling of wild beasts, or the shrieks of despairing, hate-filled men...(The Everlasting No)"
"هكذا يجب على التائه الحائر أن يقف، كما فعل الكثيرون، يصرخ سؤالاً تلو سؤال في كهف قدره العرافة، فلا يتلقى جوابًا سوى الصدى. إنه كله عويل وحشي لبهائم ضارية، أو صرخات رجال يائسين يملؤهم الكره... (اللا الأبدية)"
Thomas Carlyle
"Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man, but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity."
"قد تشتد المحن أحيانًا على المرء، ولكن لكل رجل واحد يستطيع الصمود أمام الرخاء، هناك مائة رجل يصمدون أمام الشدائد."
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
"Surely of all ‘rights of man’, this right of the ignorant man to be guided by the wiser, to be, gently or forcibly, held in the true course by him, is the indisputablest."
Thomas Carlyle
"Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you'll be able to see further."
Thomas Carlyle
"The whole universe is but a huge Symbol of god"."
Thomas Carlyle
"Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better."
Thomas Carlyle
"All that Mankind has done, thought, gained or been is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of Books. They are the chosen possession of men."
Thomas Carlyle
"The word of Mohammad is a voice direct from nature's own heart - all else is wind in comparison."
Thomas Carlyle
"I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance."
Thomas Carlyle
"To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself."
Thomas Carlyle
"Music is well said to be the speech of angels; in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine. It brings us near to the infinite."
Thomas Carlyle
"War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle; therefore they take boys from one village and another village, stick them into uniforms, equip them with guns, and let them loose like wild beasts against one other."
Thomas Carlyle
"History is the essence of innumerable biographies."
Thomas Carlyle
"Of all the things which man can do or make here below, by far the most momentous, wonderful, and worthy are the things we call books."
Thomas Carlyle
"No magic Rune is stranger than a Book. All that Mankind has done, thought, gained or been: it is lyingas in magic preservation in the pages of Books. They are the chosen possession of men."
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
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