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“If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.”
Thomas Carlyle
“No pressure, no diamonds.”
Thomas Carlyle
“Music is well said to be the speech of angels.”
Thomas Carlyle
“Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation.”
Thomas Carlyle
“Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.”
Thomas Carlyle
“The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.”
Thomas Carlyle
“There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.”
Thomas Carlyle
“Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It's a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment.”
Thomas Carlyle
“Every noble work is at first impossible.”
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
“Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.”
Thomas Carlyle
“Silence is more eloquent than words.”
Thomas Carlyle
“Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.”
Thomas Carlyle
“A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.”
Thomas Carlyle
“A man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind.”
Thomas Carlyle
“Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere.”
Thomas Carlyle
“A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun.”
Thomas Carlyle
“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 three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.”
Thomas Carlyle
“A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.”
Thomas Carlyle
“War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle.”
Thomas Carlyle
“Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.”
Thomas Carlyle
“A man cannot make a pair of shoes rightly unless he do it in a devout manner.”
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
“None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.”
Thomas Carlyle
“If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of the doubt.”
Thomas Carlyle
“It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.”
Thomas Carlyle
“Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.”
Thomas Carlyle
“Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.”
Thomas Carlyle
