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

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

Thomas Carlyle
Change, Nature, Hate

Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

Thomas Carlyle
Change, Hope, Pain
Thomas Carlyle (1872). “Works”, p.34

Of all the paths a man could strike into, there is, at any given moment, a best path .. A thing which, here and now, it were of all things wisest for him to do .. To find this path, and walk in it, is the one thing needful for him.

Thomas Carlyle
Change, Men, Path
Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.411, Lulu.com

All reform except a moral one will prove unavailing.

Thomas Carlyle
Change, Reform, Moral
1872 Critical and Miscellaneous Essays,'Corn Law Rhymes'.

The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.

Thomas Carlyle
Life, Change, Truth
Thomas Carlyle (1858). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays”, p.308

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