Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.
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 courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.
Thomas Carlyle
The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.
Thomas Carlyle
No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
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
If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.
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
The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.
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.
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