"The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green."
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"Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand."
Thomas Carlyle"Be not a slave of words."
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"The fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself."
Thomas Carlyle"I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom."
Thomas Carlyle"No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men."
Thomas Carlyle"He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything."
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"A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge."
Thomas Carlyle"The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall."
Thomas Carlyle"Music is well said to be the speech of angels."
Thomas Carlyle"If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music."
Thomas Carlyle"Endurance is patience concentrated."
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 eye sees what it brings the power to see."
Thomas Carlyle"The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion."
Thomas Carlyle"Wonder is the basis of worship."
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"Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us."
Thomas Carlyle"I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance."
Thomas Carlyle"Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness."
Thomas Carlyle"Work alone is noble."
Thomas Carlyle"Every noble work is at first impossible."
Thomas Carlyle"The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better."
Thomas Carlyle