THOMAS CARLYLE Quotes
A force as of madness in the hands of reason has done all that was ever done in the world.
Thomas Carlyle
The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity.
Thomas Carlyle
When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with its fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.
Thomas Carlyle
Work is the grand cure for all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind,honest work, which you intend getting done.
Thomas Carlyle
A person usually has two reasons for doing something: a good reason and the real reason.
Thomas Carlyle
War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle; therefore they take boys from one village and another village, stick them into uniforms, equip them with guns, and let them loose like wild beasts against each other.
Thomas Carlyle
Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.
Thomas Carlyle
All that Mankind has done, thought, gained or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of Books.
Thomas Carlyle
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.
Thomas Carlyle
No lie you can speak or act but it will come, after longer or shorter circulation, like a Bill drawn on Nature's Reality, and be presented there for payment, with the answer, No effects.
Thomas Carlyle
