If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated reading deserves to be read at all.
Thomas Carlyle
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If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated
readings deserves to be read at all.
THOMAS CARLYLE If a book is really good, it deserves to be read again, and if it's great, it should be read at leas...
ANATOLE BROYARD Read more. Read every time you go to bed; read in the day - because at least, reading a book, you ca...
THEO JAMES I believe that the phrase ‘obligatory reading’ is a contradiction in terms; reading should not b...
JORGE LUIS BORGES I doubt if I shall ever have time to read the book again -- there are too many new ones coming out a...
L.M. MONTGOMERY If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
OSCAR WILDE Read a lot. Expect something big, something exalting or deepening from a book. No book is worth read...
SUSAN SONTAG Ah, much deluded! lay aside
Thy threats, and anger misapplied!
Art not afraid with sounds ...
JOHN MILTON This book will take you two days to read. Did you even see the cover? It’s mostly pink. If you’r...
MINDY KALING If a book is worth reading, it will most probably be worth reading twice.
AMAN JASSAL I read of the Kalamazoo girl who killed herself after reading the book. I am not at all surprised. S...
MARY MACLANE [And lately, Thomas has been re-reading a book he's found particularly meaningful:] The Purpose Driv...
RICK WARREN A book you finish reading is not the same book it was before you read it.
DAVID MITCHELL It's not yet clear if the exhibition will be repeated any time soon.
HASAN NOFARASTI Let's read as if books were to disappear tomorrow!
GABRIELLE DUBOIS No scientist will sit on (a ship) for that long, reading a book and eating popcorn for the whole tim...
ROBERT BALLARD For the eye of the intellect "sees in all objects what it brought
with it the means of seeing."
...
THOMAS CARLYLE Those who do not read are no better off than those who cannot.
PROVERB 'Pastoralia' by George Saunders. Possibly my favorite book. It's one of the weirdest boo...
LIBBA BRAY A person, for example, reads in adulthood a book that is important for him, and it makes him say, "H...
ITALO CALVINO 10% of the books that interest you can improve your life. Spend 90% of your time reading them.
LORRIN L. LEE If you wanted to be average, you would not be reading this book.
LORII MYERS When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you rea...
W. E. B. DU BOIS When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you rea...
HAROLD S. GENEEN Happiness is not always reading the same page in the same book. Sometimes it is just wanting to hold...
FAYE HALL I am sorry to say that sometimes matters of very small importance waste a good deal of precious time...
WILLIAM WHIPPLE Reading alters the appearance of a book. Once it has been read, it never looks the same again, and p...
PAUL THEROUX I will persist until I succeed. Always will I take another step. If that is of no avail I
will take ...
OG MANDINO No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – wo...
C.S. LEWIS For my 2015 Book Reading Challenge resolution, the 1 (one) book I want to read is titled: "Write, yo...
ROLF AND RANGER There is a strong will to cooperate. We agreed that we should take all measures on different levels ...
EKMELEDDIN IHSANOGLU Follow your heart, Ithilnin," Albirich repeated. "Time is precious. Don't waste it living someone el...
JESS C. SCOTT All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w...
JOAN DIDION We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It...
COLSON WHITEHEAD There is no proper time and place for reading. When the mood for reading comes, one can read anywher...
LIN YUTANG I have no idea whether anyone will have any desire to read it. Will people who don't know me at all ...
JUSTIN TUSSING Storytelling is an ancient art that rarely receives the respect it deserves. Is it even possible to ...
ERIKA EICHENSEER If he is a Rehnquist, that would not be a cause for exultation in my book, but it would not be a cau...
CHUCK SCHUMER "Great quotes need to be repeated, powerful lessons can be learned by reading and pondering their wi...
TOM BAKER AKA THE PONDERING MAN It is. I mean people probably know it better than me if you have read the books. I mean, I had not r...
DAVID THEWLIS Few are sufficiently sensible of the importance of that economy in reading which selects, almost exc...
JOHN W. FOSTER I do most of my reading on the train ride to and from work. But I always have a book in my handbag s...
RANDA ABDEL-FATTAH Like Dr. King I have a dream of my own, too, that the powerful message of this little book would be ...
OPRAH WINFREY I love staring at my books for hours just trying to decide which book to read next. Doing that is al...
― LOVE THE STACKS BOOKSTORE I love staring at my books for hours just trying to decide which book to read next. Doing that is al...
LOVE THE STACKS BOOKSTORE Time isn’t precious at all, because it is an illusion. What you perceive as precious is not time b...
ECKHART TOLLE If they read two books then two books will be given to 'First Book,'
ELIZABETH MOORE That is how we writers all started: by reading. We heard the voice of a book speaking to us.
MARGARET ATWOOD When you read a supernatural suspense story or a ghost story, or a horror story, the evil at play is...
MICHAEL KORYTA I didn't know anything about '12 Years a Slave.' Not the book, not Solomon Northup, whic...
CHIWETEL EJIOFOR Even if you’re not selling your stories yet, your writing time is precious, often gained at the ex...
RACHEL AARON Not all ideas will be accepted, but every idea deserves its own space, and every idea deserves to be...
PALANIAPPAN CHIDAMBARAM I love reading; I really enjoy it. I read books quite fast, which kind of annoys me, but I like it a...
ED OXENBOULD You cannot get PTSD from reading a book or from hearing a story, even repeated stories over and over...
DALE ARCHER It is a good rule, after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have r...
ATHANASIUS OF ALEXANDRIA “Sometimes I try reading books upside-down because I think, thats what it would be like if I could...
LEIF ERICSSON LEO VENESS Do not dismayed daughters, at the number of things which you have to consider before setting out on ...
TERESA OF AVILA Do not dismayed daughters, at the number of things which you have to consider before setting out on ...
ST. TERESA OF AVILA You know how it is when you're reading a book and falling asleep, you're reading, reading... and all...
STEVEN WRIGHT It is now my favourite book of all time, but then again, I always think that until I read another bo...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY It is now my favorite book of all time, but then again, I always think that until I read another boo...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY She likes to read, she reads all the time, and she prefers to be reading several things at once, she...
ALI SMITH The book which you are reading aloud is mine, Fidentinus; but,
while you read it so badly, it begin...
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL There's a certain kind of conversation you have from time to time at parties in New York about a new...
ANNA QUINDLEN Yes, but another writer I read in high school who just knocked me out was Theodore Dreiser. I read A...
JOAN DIDION True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is lo...
THOMAS CARLYLE I just write the sort of book that I would enjoy reading myself, a book that is both scholarly and r...
ANTONY BEEVOR One trouble with developing speed reading skills is that by the time you realize a book is boring yo...
FRANKLIN P. JONES There is no thing known as bad luck. There is luck, or no luck at all.
JEFFREY FRY a pamphlet, no matter how good, is never read more than once. But a song is learned by heart and rep...
JOE HILL If you want to understand your government, don't begin by reading the Constitution. (It conveys prec...
GEORGE F. WILL I read everyday, because reading takes me away, away to a place where nothing is impossible.
MANOJ ARORA I couldn't believe they were going to let us read something like that. At first, I didn't want to re...
CANDICE WILLIAMS When somebody, usually a teacher, says, 'The child is a little slower than we'd like to see with rea...
LISA HALL I am reading six books at once, the only way of reading; since, as you will agree, one book is only ...
VIRGINIA WOOLF The more I like a book, the more slowly I read. this spontaneous talking back to a book is one of th...
ANATOLE BROYARD No one is really that good at reading the crystal ball. (Dollar-cost averaging) puts in place a patt...
DIANE ROLFSMEYER So he lent her books. After all, one of life's best pleasures is reading a book of perfect beauty; m...
WILLIAM T. VOLLMANN If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN That's what I love about reading: one tiny thing will interest you in a book, and that tiny thing wi...
MARY ANN SHAFFER When you read the Bible, you are reading the Holy Spirit and not history books. When you read histor...
T. B. JOSHUA If we finished our work, the teacher would say, 'Now don't read ahead.' But sometimes I hid the book...
BEVERLY CLEARY When I read a book, I put in all the imagination I can, so that it is almost like writing the book a...
DODIE SMITH If you find that you're spending almost all your time on theory, start turning some attention to pra...
DONALD KNUTH King Arthur's Knights had been the first book Arthur had read late at night under the covers with a ...
CHARLIE LOVETT Make wise choices about what you read. Read only what is necessary or worthwhile. And then take the ...
EKNATH EASWARAN What readers ask nowadays in a book is that it should improve, instruct and elevate. This book would...
JEROME K. JEROME If you re-read your work, you can find on re-reading a great deal of repetition can be avoided by re...
WILLIAM SAFIRE If you re-read your work, you can find on re-reading a great deal of repetition can be avoided by re...
WILLIAM SAFIRE But my philosophy is that plot advancement is not what the experience of reading fiction is about. I...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no yo...
MARGARET ATWOOD It is usual to speak in a playfully apologetic tone about one’s adult enjoyment of what are called...
C.S. LEWIS Reading a book you are not enjoying is a torture not to be undertaken without a reward. I leave play...
MARIELLA FROSTRUP No one will improve your lot if you do not yourself.
BERTOLT BRECHT One trouble with developing speed reading skills is that by the time you realize a book is boring yo...
FRANKLIN P. JONES At Home at the Carlyle
ELAINE STRITCH At Home at the Carlyle.
ELAINE STRITCH There's no more to Holden Caulfield. Read the book again. It's all there. Holden Caulfield i...
J. D. SALINGER If the novels are still being read in 50 years, no one is ever going to say: ‘What’s great about...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN If life is a book we write, it should be a book of dreams. And even if they don’t all come true, a...
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One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO.
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THOMAS CARLYLE Respectable Professors of the Dismal Science.
THOMAS CARLYLE On the whole we must repeat the often repeated saying, that it is
unworthy a religious man to view ...
THOMAS CARLYLE His religion at best is an anxious wish,--like that of Rabelais,
a great Perhaps.
THOMAS CARLYLE Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness; on the con...
THOMAS CARLYLE The eye sees what it brings the power to see.
THOMAS CARLYLE Violence does even justice unjustly.
THOMAS CARLYLE Midas-eared Mammonism, double-barrelled Dilettantism, and their
thousand adjuncts and corollaries, ...
THOMAS CARLYLE The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.
THOMAS CARLYLE Youth is to all the glad reason of life; but often only by what
it hopes, not by what it attains, o...
THOMAS CARLYLE What is all Knowledge too but recorded Experience, and a product
of History; of which, therefore, R...
THOMAS CARLYLE For love is ever the beginning of Knowledge, as fire is of light.
THOMAS CARLYLE A parliament speaking through reporters to Buncombe and the
Twenty-seven millions, mostly fools.
THOMAS CARLYLE Great is journalism. Is not every able editor a ruler of the
world, being the persuader of it?
THOMAS CARLYLE When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way, you
will command the attention of the...
THOMAS CARLYLE Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a
probability of such: it is an accide...
THOMAS CARLYLE Scarcely two hundred years back can Fame recollect articulately
at all; and there she but maunders ...
THOMAS CARLYLE To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will op...
THOMAS CARLYLE How much lies in Laughter: the cipher-key, wherewith we decipher
the whole man.
THOMAS CARLYLE Even in the meanest sorts of labor, the whole soul of a man is composed into a kind of real harmon...
THOMAS CARLYLE What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with us. The greatest ...
THOMAS CARLYLE All comes out even at the end of the day.
THOMAS CARLYLE Day of wrath that day of burning,
Seer and Sibyl speak concerning,
All the world to ashes turn...
THOMAS CARLYLE My books are friends that never fail me."
(Letter to his mother, Margaret A. Carlyle THOMAS CARLYLE If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.
THOMAS CARLYLE One is hardly sensible of fatigue while he marches to music.
THOMAS CARLYLE Song is the heroics of speech.
THOMAS CARLYLE Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
THOMAS CARLYLE Cash-payment never was, or could except for a few years be, the union-bond of man to man. Cash never...
THOMAS CARLYLE Cash-payment is not the sole nexus of man with man.
THOMAS CARLYLE A fair day's wages for a fair day's work.
THOMAS CARLYLE The greatest of all faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.
THOMAS CARLYLE The past is all holy to us; the dead are all holy; even they that were wicked when alive.
THOMAS CARLYLE Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.
THOMAS CARLYLE Wonderful Force of Public Opinion! We must act and walk in all points as it prescribes; follow the t...
THOMAS CARLYLE Little other than a red tape Talking-machine, and unhappy Bag of Parliamentary Eloquence.
THOMAS CARLYLE It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.
THOMAS CARLYLE Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacle s, discouragement s, and impossibi...
THOMAS CARLYLE It is the unseen and the spiritual in people that determines the outward and the actual.
THOMAS CARLYLE Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.
THOMAS CARLYLE Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man
THOMAS CARLYLE The person who cannot laugh is not only ready for treason, and deceptions, their whole life is alrea...
THOMAS CARLYLE No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.
THOMAS CARLYLE In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have b...
THOMAS CARLYLE Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
THOMAS CARLYLE The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to g...
THOMAS CARLYLE But the whim we have of happiness is somewhat thus. By certain valuations, and averages, of our own ...
THOMAS CARLYLE Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance -- the cheerful man will do mor...
THOMAS CARLYLE Oh, give us the man who sings at his work.
THOMAS CARLYLE In private life I never knew anyone interfere with other people's disputes but he heartily repented ...
THOMAS CARLYLE Life is a little gleam of time between two eternity s.
THOMAS CARLYLE Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundre...
THOMAS CARLYLE Action hangs, as it were, dissolved in speech, in thoughts whereof speech is the shadow; and precipi...
THOMAS CARLYLE The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.
THOMAS CARLYLE Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.
THOMAS CARLYLE Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.
THOMAS CARLYLE Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
THOMAS CARLYLE No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the wor...
THOMAS CARLYLE Only perhaps in the United States, which alone of countries can do without governing,every man being...
THOMAS CARLYLE Of America it would ill beseem any Englishman, and me perhaps as little as another, to speak unkindl...
THOMAS CARLYLE Democracy will prevail when men believe the vote of Judas as good as that of Jesus Christ.
THOMAS CARLYLE The most unhappy of all men is the man who cannot tell what he is going to do, who has got no work c...
THOMAS CARLYLE Manhood begins when we have in any way made truce with Necessity; begins even when we have surrender...
THOMAS CARLYLE That a Parliament, especially a Parliament with Newspaper Reporters firmly established in it, is an ...
THOMAS CARLYLE Parliament will train you to talk; and above all things to hear, with patience, unlimited quantities...
THOMAS CARLYLE The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against unbelief.
THOMAS CARLYLE The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.
THOMAS CARLYLE Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct.
THOMAS CARLYLE No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to d...
THOMAS CARLYLE Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.
THOMAS CARLYLE The dust of controversy is merely the falsehood flying off.
THOMAS CARLYLE Scepticism, as I said, is not intellectual only; it is moral also; a chronic atrophy and disease of ...
THOMAS CARLYLE Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to b...
THOMAS CARLYLE By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ...
THOMAS CARLYLE The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is st...
THOMAS CARLYLE The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.
THOMAS CARLYLE Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.
THOMAS CARLYLE Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of a man you are. It shows me what your ideal o...
THOMAS CARLYLE It is not a lucky word, this name impossible; no good comes of those who have it so often in their m...
THOMAS CARLYLE Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.
THOMAS CARLYLE Not our logical faculty, but our imaginative one is king over us. I might say, priest and prophet to...
THOMAS CARLYLE The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
THOMAS CARLYLE Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
THOMAS CARLYLE If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.
THOMAS CARLYLE What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greate...
THOMAS CARLYLE The fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself.
THOMAS CARLYLE Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.
THOMAS CARLYLE We have our little theory on all human and divine things. Poetry, the workings of genius itself, whi...
THOMAS CARLYLE No sadder proof can be given of a person's own tiny stature, than their disbelief in great people.
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THOMAS CARLYLE Painful for a person is rebellious independence, only in loving companionship with his associates do...
THOMAS CARLYLE Man is emphatically a proselytizing creature.
THOMAS CARLYLE The whole past is the procession of the present.
THOMAS CARLYLE The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
THOMAS CARLYLE The devil has his elect.
THOMAS CARLYLE All evil is like a nightmare; the instant you stir under it, the evil is gone.
THOMAS CARLYLE Men are to be guided only by their self-interests. Good government is a good balancing of these; and...
THOMAS CARLYLE In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; ...
THOMAS CARLYLE A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.
THOMAS CARLYLE The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.
THOMAS CARLYLE Society is founded upon cloth.
THOMAS CARLYLE If the cut of the costume indicates intellect and talent, then the color indicates temper and heart.
THOMAS CARLYLE Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.
THOMAS CARLYLE Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of n...
THOMAS CARLYLE Wonder is the basis of worship.
THOMAS CARLYLE The first sin in our universe was Lucifer's self conceit.
THOMAS CARLYLE Silence is more eloquent than words.
THOMAS CARLYLE Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves.
THOMAS CARLYLE Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
THOMAS CARLYLE Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as E...
THOMAS CARLYLE When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silenc...
THOMAS CARLYLE Speech is of time, silence is of eternity.
THOMAS CARLYLE No sooner is your ocean filled, than he grumbles that it might have been of better vintage. Try him ...
THOMAS CARLYLE Man's unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him,...
THOMAS CARLYLE He that can work is born to be king of something.
THOMAS CARLYLE No age seemed the age of romance to itself.
THOMAS CARLYLE For suffering and enduring there is no remedy, but striving and doing.
THOMAS CARLYLE The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.
THOMAS CARLYLE It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered ...
THOMAS CARLYLE A fundamental mistake to call vehemence and rigidity strength! A man is not strong who takes convuls...
THOMAS CARLYLE The spiritual is the parent of the practical.
THOMAS CARLYLE No ghost was every seen by two pair of eyes.
THOMAS CARLYLE If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?
THOMAS CARLYLE The soul gives unity to what it looks at with love.
THOMAS CARLYLE History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in s...
THOMAS CARLYLE We call it a Society; and go about professing openly the totalest separation, isolation. Our life is...
THOMAS CARLYLE The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.
THOMAS CARLYLE The Great Man's sincerity is of the kind he cannot speak of, is not conscious of: nay, I suppose, he...
THOMAS CARLYLE All men, if they work not as in the great taskmaster's eye, will work wrong, and work unhappily for ...
THOMAS CARLYLE Cherish what is dearest while you have it near you, and wait not till it is far away. Blind and deaf...
THOMAS CARLYLE Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard wor...
THOMAS CARLYLE To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, tha...
THOMAS CARLYLE Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.
THOMAS CARLYLE A person usually has two reasons for doing something: a good reason and the real reason.
THOMAS CARLYLE Reality, if rightly interpreted, is grander than fiction.
THOMAS CARLYLE We were wise indeed, could we discern truly the signs of our own time; and by knowledge of its wants...
THOMAS CARLYLE Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what clearly lies at hand.
THOMAS CARLYLE Man is a tool-using Animal. Nowhere do you find him without tools; without tools he is nothing, with...
THOMAS CARLYLE Battles, in these ages, are transacted by mechanism; with the slightest possible development of huma...
THOMAS CARLYLE When we can drain the Ocean into mill-ponds, and bottle up the Force of Gravity, to be sold by retai...
THOMAS CARLYLE A man cannot make a pair of shoes rightly unless he do it in a devout manner.
THOMAS CARLYLE In a symbol there is concealment and yet revelation: here therefore, by silence and by speech acting...
THOMAS CARLYLE Let one who wants to move and convince others, first be convinced and moved themselves. If a person ...
THOMAS CARLYLE Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.
THOMAS CARLYLE The cut of a garment speaks of intellect and talent and the color of temperament and heart.
THOMAS CARLYLE Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of o...
THOMAS CARLYLE No conquest can ever become permanent which does not show itself beneficial to the conquered as well...
THOMAS CARLYLE Variety is the condition of harmony.
THOMAS CARLYLE I don't pretend to understand the Universe -- it's a great deal bigger than I am.
THOMAS CARLYLE Men's hearts ought not to be set against one another, but set with one another, and all against evil...
THOMAS CARLYLE No person was every rightly understood until they had been first regarded with a certain feeling, no...
THOMAS CARLYLE The world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was.
THOMAS CARLYLE It is a mathematical fact that the casting of this pebble from my hand alters the centre of gravity ...
THOMAS CARLYLE For man is not the creature and product of Mechanism; but, in a far truer sense, its creator and pro...
THOMAS CARLYLE Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man.
THOMAS CARLYLE Let each become all that he was created capable of being.
THOMAS CARLYLE The condition of the most passionate enthusiast is to be preferred over the individual who, because ...
THOMAS CARLYLE If there be no enemy there's no fight. If no fight, no victory and if no victory there is no crown.
THOMAS CARLYLE The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.
THOMAS CARLYLE Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.
THOMAS CARLYLE Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.
THOMAS CARLYLE Clever men are good, but they are not the best.
THOMAS CARLYLE Pin your faith to no ones sleeves, haven't you two eyes of your own.
THOMAS CARLYLE I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
THOMAS CARLYLE The actual well seen is ideal.
THOMAS CARLYLE Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
THOMAS CARLYLE For the superior morality, of which we hear so much, we too would desire to be thankful: at the same...
THOMAS CARLYLE The eternal stars shine out as soon as it is dark enough.
THOMAS CARLYLE The depth of our despair measures what capability and height of claim we have to hope.
THOMAS CARLYLE The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak becomes a stepping-stone in th...
THOMAS CARLYLE There are but two ways of paying debt: Increase of industry in raising income, increase of thrift in...
THOMAS CARLYLE Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil; for which reason I have long since a...
THOMAS CARLYLE The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconsciou...
THOMAS CARLYLE Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can ...
THOMAS CARLYLE Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.
THOMAS CARLYLE History is the distillation of rumor.
THOMAS CARLYLE Stern accuracy in inquiring, bold imagination in describing, these are the cogs on which history soa...
THOMAS CARLYLE Heroism is the divine relation which, in all times, unites a great man to other men.
THOMAS CARLYLE Hero-worship is the deepest root of all; the tap-root, from which in a great degree all the rest wer...
THOMAS CARLYLE All sorts of Heroes are intrinsically of the same material; that given a great soul, open to the Div...
THOMAS CARLYLE The hell of these days is the fear of not getting along, especially of not making money.
THOMAS CARLYLE The heart always sees before than the head can see.
THOMAS CARLYLE Ill-health, of body or of mind, is defeat. Health alone is victory. Let all men, if they can manage ...
THOMAS CARLYLE A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
THOMAS CARLYLE History is the essence of innumerable biographies.
THOMAS CARLYLE If those gentlemen would let me alone I should be much obliged to them. I would say, as Shakespeare ...
THOMAS CARLYLE No sooner does a great man depart, and leave his character as public property, than a crowd of littl...
THOMAS CARLYLE Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.
THOMAS CARLYLE Even in the meanest sorts of labor, the whole soul of a man is composed into a kind of real harmony ...
THOMAS CARLYLE For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities ...
THOMAS CARLYLE The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall.
THOMAS CARLYLE The Mystic Bond of Brotherhood makes all men one.
THOMAS CARLYLE No violent extreme endures.
THOMAS CARLYLE What are your historical Facts; still more your biographical? Wilt thou know a man by stringing-toge...
THOMAS CARLYLE I grow daily to honor facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a gr...
THOMAS CARLYLE Conclusive facts are inseparable from inconclusive except by a head that already understands and kno...
THOMAS CARLYLE Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
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