Thomas carlyle the true past departs not (7)

If thou are a master, be sometimes blind; if a servant, sometimes deaf.

It is possible to be below flattery as well as above it.

Judge of thine improvement, not by what thou speakest or writest, but by the firmness of thy mind, and the government of thy passions and affections.

Thomas Fuller

Do it now. It is not safe to leave a generous feeling to the cooling influences of the world.

Thomas Guthrie

" i am a man, not a duck, llama, or fish, once a man, always a man"

Sir Stuart Thomas

Advertisements... contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.

Thomas Jefferson

I read no newspaper now but Ritchie's, and in that chiefly the advertisements, for they contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.

Thomas Jefferson

Purchase not friends by gifts; when thou ceasest to give, such will cease to love.

Thomas Fuller

It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.

Thomas Paine

Trade-offs have been with us ever since the late unpleasantness in the Garden of Eden.

Thomas Sowell

Forcible ways make not an end of evil, but leave hatred and malice behind them.

Sir Thomas Browne

The possession of unlimited power will make a despot of almost any man. There is a possible Nero in the gentlest human creature that walks.

Thomas Bailey

We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.

Thomas Jefferson

No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.

Thomas Mann

Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep forever.

Thomas Jefferson

At Christmas play and make good cheer, For Christmas comes but once a year.

Thomas Tusser

Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.

Thomas Fuller

To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent - that is to triumph over old age.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.

Thomas Mann

When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.

Thomas Szasz

He who demands mercy and shows none burns the bridges over which he himself must later pass.

Thomas Adams

Nay, tempt me not to love again: There was a time when love was sweet; Dear Nea! had I known thee then, Our souls had not been slow to meet! But oh! this weary heart hath run So many a time the rounds of pain, Not even for thee, thou lovely one! Would I endure such pangs again.

Sir Thomas More

Men have become fools with their tools.

Thomas Elisha Stewart

He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.

Thomas Paine

The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.

Thomas Calyle