01c. 1838 ADIt is not to taste sweet things, but to do noble and true things, and vindicate himself under God's heaven as a God-made man, that the poorest son of Adam dimly longs. Show him the way of doing that, the dullest day-drudge kindles into a hero.Thomas Carlyle / quote ↗
02c. 1838 ADLet him who gropes painfully in darkness or uncertain light, and prays vehemently that the dawn may ripen into day, lay this precept well to heart: "Do the duty which lies nearest to thee," which thou knowest to be a duty! Thy second duty will already have become clearer.Thomas Carlyle / quote ↗
03c. 1838 ADExperience does take dreadfully high school-wages, but he teaches like no other.Thomas Carlyle / quote ↗
05c. 1838 ADNo sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.Thomas Carlyle / quote ↗
06c. 1838 AD"Hast thou hope?" they asked of John Knox, when he lay a-dying. He spoke nothing, but raised his finger and pointed upward, and so died.Thomas Carlyle / quote ↗
07c. 1838 ADThere is but one thing without honor, smitten with eternal barrenness, inability to do or to be,—insincerity, unbelief.Thomas Carlyle / quote ↗
10c. 1838 ADA laugh to be joyous must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness there can be no true joy.Thomas Carlyle / quote ↗
11c. 1838 ADMake yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure that there is one rascal less in the world.Thomas Carlyle / quote ↗
12c. 1838 ADThe deepest depth of vulgarism is that of setting up money as the ark of the covenant.Thomas Carlyle / quote ↗
13c. 1838 ADBlessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness. He has a work, a life purpose. Labor is life.Thomas Carlyle / quote ↗
14c. 1838 ADThe block of granite, which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, becomes a stepping stone in the pathway of the strong.Thomas Carlyle / quote ↗
15c. 1838 ADPiety does not mean that a man should make a sour face about things, and refuse to enjoy in moderation what his Maker has given.Thomas Carlyle / quote ↗
17c. 1838 ADRest is a fine medicine. Let your stomachs rest, ye dyspeptics; let your brain rest, you wearied and worried men of business; let your limbs rest, ye children of toil!Thomas Carlyle / quote ↗
18c. 1838 ADSuperstition! that horrid incubus which dwelt in darkness, shunning the light, with all its racks, and poison chalices, and foul sleeping draughts, is passing away without return. Religion cannot pass away. The burning of a little straw may hide the stars of the sky; but the stars are there and will reappear.Thomas Carlyle / quote ↗
19c. 1838 ADIf 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.Thomas Carlyle / quote ↗
20c. 1838 ADThe modern majesty consists in work. What a man can do is his greatest ornament, and he always consults his dignity by doing it.Thomas Carlyle / quote ↗
21c. 1838 ADA fact is a great thing: a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.Thomas Carlyle / quote ↗
22c. 1838 AD"A fair day's wages for a fair day's work," is as just a demand as governed men ever made of governing; yet in what corner of this planet was that ever realised?Thomas Carlyle / quote ↗
24c. 1838 ADAll balloons give up their gas in the pressure of things, and collapse in a sufficiently wretched manner erelong.Thomas Carlyle / quote ↗
