Once turn to practice, error and truth will no longer consort together. Thomas Carlyle More Quotes by Thomas Carlyle More Quotes From Thomas Carlyle See deep enough, and you see musically. Thomas Carlyle music-and-healingmusic-healingenough One monster there is in the world, the idle man. Thomas Carlyle monstersmenworld Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer. Thomas Carlyle dutymotivationallying Music is well said to be the speech of angels. Thomas Carlyle musicangelinspirational What 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 Carlyle educationmotivationallife It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe. Thomas Carlyle workinspirationalmen A man with a half volition goes backwards and forwards, and makes no way on the smoothest road; a man with a whole volition advances on the roughest, and will reach his purpose, if there be even a little worthiness in it. 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. Thomas Carlyle mindattitudemen The weakest living creature, by concentrating his powers on a single object, can accomplish something. The strongest, by dispensing his over many, may fail to accomplish anything. The drop, by continually falling, bores its passage through the hardest rock. The hasty torrent rushes over it with hideous uproar, and leaves no trace behind. Thomas Carlyle persistencerocksfall I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom. Thomas Carlyle boredomambitioninspirational Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone. Thomas Carlyle confidencemotivationallife If 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 Carlyle atheistfunjesus Terror itself, when once grown transcendental, becomes a kind of courage; as frost sufficiently intense, according to the poet Milton, will burn. Thomas Carlyle intensefrostkind Who is it that loves me and will love me forever with an affection which no chance, no misery, no crime of mine can do away? It is you, my mother. Thomas Carlyle mommotherforever He who has no vision of eternity has no hold on time. Thomas Carlyle visioneternitytime The Ideal is in thyself, the impediments too is in thyself. Thomas Carlyle impedimentsidealspsychology All work of man is as the swimmer's: a vast ocean threatens to devour him; if he front it not bravely, it will keep its word. Thomas Carlyle swimmeroceanmen Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope. Thomas Carlyle painchangehope Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness. Thomas Carlyle businessmotivationalhappiness All work, even cotton-spinning, is noble; work is alone noble. Thomas Carlyle noblepositivelife A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy. Thomas Carlyle laughterkindnessheart
