"Where there is peace, God is." ~George Herbert

"Carve your blessings in stone." ~Anon
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6/29/11

THOMAS CARLYLE Quotes


"A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats  little men." ~Thomas Carlyle 

"A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge." ~Thomas Carlyle

“Consider it the greatest of all virtues to restrain the tongue.” ~Thomas Carlyle

"Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct." ~Thomas Carlyle

"Every noble work is at first impossible." ~Thomas Carlyle on Diligence

"Genius means the transcendent capacity of taking trouble." ~Thomas Carlyle

“If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated readings deserves to be read at all.” ~Thomas Carlyle on Reading

"Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world." ~Thomas Carlyle

"Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can." ~Thomas Carlyle

"My books are friends that never fail me." ~Thomas Carlyle

"Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realised by man ever dies, or can die." ~Thomas Carlyle

"Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly in the distance but to do what lies clearly at hand." ~Thomas Carlyle

"Prayer is and remains always a native and deepest impulse of the soul of man." ~Thomas Carlyle

"Speech is of time, silence is of eternity." ~Thomas Carlyle

"The 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

"The great law of culture is: Let each become all that he was created capable of being. " ~Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)

"The man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder–a 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." ~Carlyle

"The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better." ~Thomas Carlyle, English philosopher

"The weakest living creature, by concentrating his powers on a single object, can accomplish something; whereas the strongest, by dispersing his over many, may fail to accomplish anything." ~Thomas Carlyle

“The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.” ~Thomas Carlyle on Influence

"Under 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 Carlyle

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