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Thomas Carlyle Quotes about Time

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He who has no vision of eternity has no hold on time.

He who has no vision of eternity has no hold on time.

Time, Vision, Eternity

Our grand business undoubtedly is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Inspirational, Motivational, Time

"Signs of the Times". Essay by Thomas Carlyle, www.victorianweb.org. 1829.

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

Time, Shallow Person, Silence

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

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

Time, Naps, Way

If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated readings deserves to be read at all.

Time, Book, Reading

Thomas Carlyle (1864). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays ...”, p.57

One life; a little gleam of Time between two Eternities; no second chance to us for evermore!

Time, Second Chance, Two

Thomas Carlyle (1860). “Passages selected from the writings of Thomas Carlyle, with a biogr. memoir by T. Ballantyne”, p.207

Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.

Birthday, Time, Sorrow

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.

Time, Lying, Silence

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

Time has only a relative existence.

Time, Existence, Relative

Thomas Carlyle (2012). “The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872”, p.31, tredition

Speech is of time, silence is of eternity.

Time, Silence, Speech

Thomas Carlyle, Rodger L. Tarr, Mark Engel (2000). “Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh in Three Books”, p.162, Univ of California Press

Heroism is the divine relation which, in all times, unites a great man to other men.

Time, Hero, Men

Thomas Carlyle (1840). “On Heroes, Hero-worship and the Heroic in History”, p.4

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.

Time, Youth, Glad

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

The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

Time, Yesterday, Forever

Give us, O give us the man who sings at his work! Be his occupation what it may, he is equal to any of those who follow the same pursuit in silent sullenness. He will do more in the same time . . . he will do it better . . . he will persevere longer. One is scarcely sensible to fatigue while he marches to music. The very stars are said to make harmony as they revolve in their spheres.

Time, Stars, Work

The past is all holy to us; the dead are all holy; even they that were wicked when alive.

Time, Past, Wicked

Thomas Carlyle (1881). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: Collected and Republished”, p.45

In books lies the soul of the whole Past Time; the articulate audible voice of the Past, when the body and material substance of it has altogether vanished like a dream.

Dream, Time, Lying

'On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic' (1841) 'The Hero as Man of Letters'

O Time! Time! how it brings forth and devours! And the roaring flood of existence rushes on forever similar, forever changing!

Time, Forever, Roaring

Thomas Carlyle, Charles Richard Sanders, Jane Welsh Carlyle (1973). “The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle: October 1833-december 1834”, Duke University Press Books

Eternity looks grander and kinder if time grow meaner and more hostile.

Time, Looks, Eternity

That great mystery of TIME, were there no other; the illimitable, silent, never-resting thing called Time, rolling, rushing on, swift, silent, like an all-embracing ocean tide, on which we and all the Universe swim like exhalations, like apparitions which are, and then are not: this is forever very literally a miracle; a thing to strike us dumb,-for we have no word to speak about it.

Time, Ocean, Rushing

Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.96, Lulu.com

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