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Speak not at all, in any wise, till you have somewhat to speak; care not for the reward of your speaking, but simply and with undivided mind for the truth of your speaking.

Speak not at all, in any wise, till you have somewhat to speak; care not for the reward of your speaking, but simply and with undivided mind for the truth of your speaking.

Wise, Mind, Care

Thomas Carlyle (1881). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: Collected and Republished”, p.47

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.

Strength, Happiness, Power

Happy the People whose Annals are blank in History Books!

Book, People, Blank

"The Works of Thomas Carlyle".

The weakest living creature, by concentrating his powers on a single object, can accomplish something. The strongest, by dispensing his over many, may fail to accomplish anything. The drop, by continually falling, bores its passage through the hardest rock. The hasty torrent rushes over it with hideous uproar, and leaves no trace behind.

Fall, Persistence, Rocks

"The Life of Friedrich Schiller: Comprehending an Examination of His Works". Book by Thomas Carlyle, 1825.

A man lives by believing something.

Believe, Men, Belief

Thomas Carlyle (1871). “The Collected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.315

It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.

Heart, Mind

Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.50, Lulu.com

Do nothing, only keep agitating, debating; and things will destroy themselves.

Thomas Carlyle (1841). “The French Revolution: A History”, p.218

There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.

Mood Changes, Bad Times, Fortune

There are but two ways of paying debt: Increase of industry in raising income, increase of thrift in laying out.

Two, Paying Debts, Income

Thomas Carlyle (1870). “Past and Present”, p.113

Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.

Humor, Poetic License, Perfection

Thomas Carlyle (1825). “Carlyle's Works ...”

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

Writing, Men, Discovery

John Stuart Mill, Thomas Carlyle (2010). “Autobiography of J.S. Mill & on Liberty; Characteristics, Inaugural Address at Edinburgh & Sir Walter Scott”, p.413, Cosimo, Inc.

The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.

Inspirational, Courage, Strong

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

Stop a moment, cease your work, and look around you.

Inspirational, Vision, Looks

Have a purpose in life, and having it, throw into your work such strength of mind and muscle as God has given you.

Life, Mind, Purpose

The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against disbelief

Battle, Belief, Ends

Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.

Elements, Mysterious, Mystery

Why tell me that a man is a fine speaker, if it is not the truth that he is speaking?

Truth, Men, Fine

John Stuart Mill, Thomas Carlyle (2010). “Autobiography of J.S. Mill & on Liberty; Characteristics, Inaugural Address at Edinburgh & Sir Walter Scott”, p.394, Cosimo, Inc.

Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.

Minorities, Opinion, Starting

Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.133, Lulu.com

You can make even a parrot into a learned political economist - all he must learn are the two words "supply" and "demand."

Education, Two, Political

Cherish what is dearest while you have it near you, and wait not till it is far away. Blind and deaf that we are; oh, think, if thou yet love anybody living, wait not till death sweep down the paltry little dust clouds and dissonances of the moment, and all be made at last so mournfully clear and beautiful, when it is too late.

Beautiful, Thinking, Clouds

Habit is the deepest law of human nature

Law, Human Nature, Habit

Thomas Carlyle (1843). “Past and Present”, p.77

All great peoples are conservative.

Conservative

Thomas Carlyle (2016). “Past and Present: The Historian”, p.159, 北戴河出版

It is in general more profitable to reckon up our defeats than to boast of our attainments.

Basketball, Defeat, Attainment

Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.

Advice, Acting, Doe

Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (2010). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.451, Cambridge University Press

Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.

Inspirational, Philosophical, Eye

Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (1900). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle: Critical and miscellaneous essays”

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