Quotes

“Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong.” Thomas Carlyle

“The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.” Thomas Carlyle

“The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.” Thomas Carlyle

“The eye sees what it brings the power to see.” Thomas Carlyle

“The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.” Thomas Carlyle

“The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.” Thomas Carlyle

“There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.” Thomas Carlyle

“What you see, but can't see over is as good as infinite.” Thomas Carlyle

“When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent.” Thomas Carlyle

“Work alone is noble.” Thomas Carlyle

“Worship is transcendent wonder.” Thomas Carlyle

“Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.” Thomas Carlyle

“Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.” Thomas Carlyle

“Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will.” 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

“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

“Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness; on the confines of the two everlasting empires, necessity and free will.” Thomas Carlyle

“Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than gracefully insists on its own rights.” Thomas Carlyle

“Man's unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite.” 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

“It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.” Thomas Carlyle

“Thought once awakened does not again slumber; unfolds itself into a System of Thought; grows, in man after man, generation after generation, - till its full stature is reached, and such System of Thought can grow no farther, but must give place to another.” Thomas Carlyle

“For, if a good speaker, never so eloquent, does not see into the fact, and is not speaking the truth of that - is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?” Thomas Carlyle

“I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.” Thomas Carlyle

“Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together; that at length they may emerge, full-formed and majestic, into the delight of life, which they are thenceforth to rule.” Thomas Carlyle

“You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.” Johnny Cash

“Sometimes I am two people. Johnny is the nice one. Cash causes all the trouble. They fight.” Johnny Cash

“Success is having to worry about every damn thing in the world, except money.” Johnny Cash

“You've got to know your limitations. I don't know what your limitations are. I found out what mine were when I was twelve. I found out that there weren't too many limitations, if I did it my way.” Johnny Cash

“How well I have learned that there is no fence to sit on between heaven and hell. There is a deep, wide gulf, a chasm, and in that chasm is no place for any man.” Johnny Cash