Thomas carlyle the true past departs not
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 CarlyleThe true university of these days is a collection of books.
Thomas CarlyleTrue humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laugther, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.
Thomas CarlyleEverywhere in life the true question is, not what we have gained, but what we do.
Thomas CarlyleUnder all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.
Thomas CarlyleAll men, if they work not as in the great taskmaster's eye, will work wrong, and work unhappily for themselves and for you.
Thomas CarlylePopular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.
Thomas CarlyleSpeech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.
Thomas CarlyleA well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
Thomas CarlyleIt is not a lucky word, this name "impossible"; no good comes of those who have it so often in their mouths.
Thomas CarlyleThat there should one Man die ignorant who had capacity for Knowledge, this I call a tragedy.
Thomas CarlyleOur main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand.
Thomas CarlyleEnjoy things which are pleasant; that is not the evil: it is the reducing of our moral self to slavery by them that is.
Thomas CarlyleIf Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it.
Thomas CarlyleThe greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.
Thomas CarlyleIn idleness there is a perpetual despair.
Thomas CarlyleBlessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
Thomas CarlyleA person usually has two reasons for doing something: a good reason and the real reason.
Thomas CarlyleThe Courage that we all prize and seek is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.
Thomas CarlyleWhat we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
Thomas CarlyleSilence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.
Thomas CarlyleOriginality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with.
Thomas CarlyleMake yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure that there is one rascal less in the world.
Thomas CarlyleHappy are the people whose annals are blank in history books
Thomas CarlyleThe man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder - waif, a nothing, a no man. Have a purpose in life, and, having it, throw such strength of mind and muscle into your work as God has given you.
Thomas Carlyle
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