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Thomas Carlyle Quotes - Page 12

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All work of man is as the swimmer's: a vast ocean threatens to devour him; if he front it not bravely, it will keep its word.

All work of man is as the swimmer's: a vast ocean threatens to devour him; if he front it not bravely, it will keep its word.

Ocean, Men, Swimmer

The latest gospel in this world is, know thy work and do it.

World, This World, Duty

Thomas Carlyle (1848). “Past and Present: Chartism, and Sartor Resartus”, p.197

Neither let mistakes and wrong directions - of which every man, in his studies and elsewhere, falls into many - discourage you. There is precious instruction to be got by finding that we are wrong. Let a man try faithfully, manfully to be right, he will grow daily more and more right. It is, at bottom, the condition which all men have to cultivate themselves. Our very walking is an incessant falling - a falling and a catching of ourselves before we come actually to the pavement! - it is emblematic of all things a man does.

Mistake, Fall, Men

Democracy will prevail when men believe the vote of Judas as good as that of Jesus Christ.

Jesus, Believe, Men

"The Scholar in a Republic" by Wendell Phillips. Reported in Carlos Martyn and Wendell Phillips, "The Agitator" (1890), p. 581, June 30, 1881.

Acorns are planted silently by some unnoticed breeze.

Acorns, Birth, Breeze

1838 Critical and Miscellaneous Essays,'History'.

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness. He has a work, a Life-purpose... Get your happiness out of your work or you will never know what real happiness is... Even in the meanest sorts of Labour, the whole soul of a man is composed into a kind of real harmony the instant he sets himself to work!

Real, Blessed, Men

"Past and Present". Book by Thomas Carlyle, April 1843.

Feel it in thy heart and then say whether it is of God!

Heart, Feels

Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (2010). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.155, Cambridge University Press

Scarcely two hundred years back can Fame recollect articulately at all; and there she but maunders and mumbles.

Years, Two, Fame

Thomas Carlyle (1862). “Past and Present: Chartism, and Sartor Resartus”, p.132

Blessed be the God's voice; for it is true, and falsehoods have to cease before it!

Truth, Blessed, Voice

Thomas Carlyle (1840). “Works”

The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Sentimental, Sentiments, Mortals

Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (2010). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.9, Cambridge University Press

It is great, and there is no other greatness-to make one nook of God's Creation more fruitful, better, more worthy of God; to make some human heart a little wiser, manlier, happier-more blessed.

Blessed, Heart, Greatness

For suffering and enduring there is no remedy, but striving and doing.

Suffering Pain, Pain And Suffering, Strive

Thomas Carlyle (1847). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: Collected and Republished”, p.293

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.

Wise, Men, Foolish Man

1829 Signs of the Times.

Biography is the most universally pleasant and profitable of all reading.

Book, Reading, Biographies

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.

Fashion, Meditation, Silence

Thomas Carlyle, Rodger L. Tarr, Mark Engel (2000). “Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh in Three Books”, p.161, Univ of California Press

The lies (Western slander) which well-meaning zeal has heaped round this man (Muhammad) are disgraceful to ourselves only.

Lying, Men, Muhammad

We call it a Society; and go about professing openly the totalest separation, isolation. Our life is not a mutual helpfulness; but rather, cloaked under due laws-of-war, named fair competition and so forth, it is a mutual hostility.

War, Law, Competition

Thomas Carlyle (1843). “Past and Present”, p.87

Affectation is the product of falsehood.

Products, Falsehood

Thomas Carlyle (1864). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays ...”, p.213

The age of miracles is forever here.

Miracle, Forever, Age

Thomas Carlyle (1840). “On Heroes, Hero-worship and the Heroic in History”, p.151

No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.

Inspirational, Positive, Happiness

1833-4 Sartor Resartus, bk.1, ch.4.

Neither in tailoring nor in legislating does man proceed by mere accident.

Men, Doe, Accidents

Thomas Carlyle (1862). “Past and Present: Chartism, and Sartor Resartus”

Parties on the back of Parties, at war with the world and with each other.

War, Party, History

Thomas Carlyle (2002). “The Life of Oliver Cromwell: With a Selection from His Letters and Speeches”, p.166, The Minerva Group, Inc.

What is philosophy but a continual battle against custom?

Philosophy, Battle, Customs

If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.

Success, Done, Unjust

Debt is a bottomless sea.

Sea, Debt, Borrowing

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