Once the mind has been expanded by a big idea, it will never go back to its original state. Thomas Carlyle More Quotes by Thomas Carlyle More Quotes From 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 health exercise men Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether. Thomas Carlyle acting doe advice We are to take no counsel with flesh and blood; give ear to no vain cavils, vain sorrows and wishes; to know that we know nothing, that the worst and cruelest to our eyes is not what it seems, that we have to receive whatsoever befalls us as sent from God above, and say, "It is good and wise,--God is great! Though He slay me, yet I trust in Him." Islam means, in its way, denial of self. This is yet the highest wisdom that heaven has revealed to our earth. Thomas Carlyle eye wise mean The crash of the whole solar and stellar systems could only kill you once. Thomas Carlyle stellar crash whole Stop a moment, cease your work, and look around you. Thomas Carlyle vision inspirational looks Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being. Thomas Carlyle capability process culture Men's hearts ought not to be set against one another, but set with one another and all against evil only. Thomas Carlyle evil heart men Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects. Thomas Carlyle philosophical eye inspirational The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green. Thomas Carlyle business water men This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle; wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it. Thomas Carlyle magic-in-the-world science thinking Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world. Thomas Carlyle recognition lying world There are but two ways of paying debt: Increase of industry in raising income, increase of thrift in laying out. Thomas Carlyle paying-debts income two Silence is more eloquent than words. Thomas Carlyle eloquent silence-is silence Democracy means despair of finding any heroes to govern you, and contented putting up with the want of them. Thomas Carlyle democracy hero mean The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong. Thomas Carlyle strong courage inspirational Self-contemplation is infallibly the symptom of disease. Thomas Carlyle contemplation disease self The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better. Thomas Carlyle humor blue funny The fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself. Thomas Carlyle unbelief doubt fear Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die. Thomas Carlyle goodness men past To know, to get into the truth of anything, is ever a mystic art, of which the best logic's can but babble on the surface. Thomas Carlyle spirituality logic art
