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Speech is silver, silence is golden.

Speech is silver, silence is golden.

Silence, Gold, Speech

Thomas Carlyle (1897). “The Hero as Man of Letters”

Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.

Life, Motivational, Pain

Statistics, one may hope, will improve gradually, and become good for something. Meanwhile, it is to be feared the crabbed satirist was partly right, as things go: "A judicious man," says he, "looks at Statistics, not to get knowledge, but to save himself from having ignorance foisted on him."

Ignorance, Knowledge, Science

English and Other Critical Essays Chartism, Chapter II

Every noble work is at first impossible.

Positive, Stay Strong, Inspirational Life

Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.397, Lulu.com

There is often more spiritual force in a proverb than in whole philosophical systems.

Spiritual, Philosophical, Force

Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.

Time, Shallow Person, Silence

'Critical and Miscellaneous Essays' (1838) 'Sir Walter Scott'.

Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.

Work, Misery, Cures

Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (2010). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.455, Cambridge University Press

Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.

Confidence, Self Esteem, Adventure

A man protesting against error is on the way towards uniting himself with all men that believe in truth.

Truth, Believe, Men

Thomas Carlyle (2016). “Heroes and Hero Worship: The Historian”, p.112, 北戴河出版

It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe.

Inspirational, Work, Men

John Stuart Mill, Thomas Carlyle (2010). “Autobiography of J.S. Mill & on Liberty; Characteristics, Inaugural Address at Edinburgh & Sir Walter Scott”, p.378, Cosimo, Inc.

Ill-health, of body or of mind, is defeat. Health alone is victory. Let all men, if they can manage it, contrive to be healthy!

Health, Exercise, Men

Thomas Carlyle (1855). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: By Thomas Carlyle”, p.521

Naps are a way of traveling painlessly through time into the future.

Time, Naps, Way

The purpose of man is in action not thought.

Men, Purpose, Action

By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Change, Nature, Hate

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.

Death, Men, Two

Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.

Honesty, Men, World

The first duty of man is that of subduing fear.

Men, Firsts, Duty

Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the architect of circumstance. It is character which builds an existence out of circumstance. From the same materials one man builds palaces, another hovels; one warehouses, another villas; bricks and mortar are mortar and bricks until the architect can make them something else.

Character, Men, Bricks And Mortar

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Nathan Haskell Dole, George Henry Lewes, Thomas Carlyle, John Storer Cobb (1902*). “The Works of Goethe”

He who could foresee affairs three days in advance would be rich for thousands of years.

Years, Would Be, Three

They only are wise who know that they know nothing.

Wise, Knows

Thomas Carlyle, G. B. Tennyson (1984). “Carlyle Reader”, p.161, CUP Archive

Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.

Inspirational, Positive, Christian

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.

Motivational, Strength, Men

If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.

Men, Wish, Ifs

Democracy means despair of finding any heroes to govern you, and contented putting up with the want of them.

Hero, Mean, Democracy

Thomas Carlyle (1872). “Past and Present”, p.185

Only the person of worth can recognize the worth in others.

Persons

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