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Thomas Carlyle

No violent extreme endures. – Thomas Carlyle

Reality, if rightly interpreted, is grander than fiction. – Thomas Carlyle

The heart always sees before than the head can see. – Thomas Carlyle

Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come. – Thomas Carlyle

For suffering and enduring there is no remedy, but striving and doing. – Thomas Carlyle

Ill-health, of body or of mind, is defeat. Health alone is victory. Let all men, if they can manage it, contrive to be healthy! – Thomas Carlyle

A person with half volition goes backwards and forwards, but makes no progress on even the smoothest of roads. – Thomas Carlyle

Heroism is the divine relation which, in all times, unites a great man to other men. – Thomas Carlyle

The depth of our despair measures what capability and height of claim we have to hope. – Thomas Carlyle

Pin your faith to no ones sleeves, havent you two eyes of your own. – Thomas Carlyle

Show me the person you honor, for I know better by that the kind of person you are. For you show me what your idea of humanity is. – Thomas Carlyle

The soul gives unity to what it looks at with love. – Thomas Carlyle

In the true Literary Man there is thus ever, acknowledged or not by the world, a sacredness: he is the light of the world; the worlds Priest; — guiding it, like a sacred Pillar of Fire, in its dark pilgrimage through the waste of Time. – Thomas Carlyle

Mens hearts ought not to be set against one another, but set with one another, and all against evil only. – Thomas Carlyle

Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer. – Thomas Carlyle

It is a mathematical fact that the casting of this pebble from my hand alters the centre of gravity of the universe. – Thomas Carlyle

The first sin in our universe was Lucifers self conceit. – Thomas Carlyle

Variety is the condition of harmony. – Thomas Carlyle

A man cannot make a pair of shoes rightly unless he do it in a devout manner. – Thomas Carlyle

When we can drain the Ocean into mill-ponds, and bottle up the Force of Gravity, to be sold by retail, in gas jars; then may we hope to comprehend the infinitudes of mans soul under formulas of Profit and Loss; and rule over this too, as over a patent engine, by checks, and valves, and balances. – Thomas Carlyle