The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then. Thomas Carlyle More Quotes by Thomas Carlyle More Quotes From Thomas Carlyle The Bible is the truest utterance that ever came by alphabetic letters from the soul of man, through which, as through a window divinely opened, all men can look into the stillness of eternity, and discern in glimpses their far-distant, long-forgotten home. Thomas Carlyle biblicalhomebible The modern majesty consists in work. What a man can do is his greatest ornament, and he always consults his dignity by doing it. Thomas Carlyle majestyworkmen A person with a clear purpose will make progress, even on the roughest road. A person with no purpose will make no progress, even on the smoothest road. Thomas Carlyle progresspurposemotivational And yet without labour there were no ease, no rest, so much as conceivable. Thomas Carlyle labourlaborease He who talks much about virtue in the abstract, begins to be suspected; it is shrewdly guessed that where there is great preaching there will be little almsgiving. Thomas Carlyle abstractvirtuelittles Who is there that, in logical words, can express the effect music has on us? Thomas Carlyle effectslogical He who could foresee affairs three days in advance would be rich for thousands of years. Thomas Carlyle threewould-beyears Dinners are defined as 'the ultimate act of communion;' men that can have communion in nothing else, can sympathetically eat together, can still rise into some glow of brotherhood over food and wine. Thomas Carlyle brotherhoodwinemen Work earnestly at anything, you will by degrees learn to work at all things. Thomas Carlyle degreesall-things Faith is loyalty to some inspired teacher, some spiritual hero. Thomas Carlyle loyaltyspiritualteacher The devil has his elect. Thomas Carlyle devil The eye sees what it brings the power to see. Thomas Carlyle eyepowerknowledge Taste, if it mean anything but a paltry connoisseurship, must mean a general susceptibility to truth and nobleness, a sense to discern, and a heart to love and reverence all beauty, order, goodness, wheresoever, or in whatsoever forms and accompaniments they are to be seen. This surely implies, as its chief condition, not any given external rank or situation, but a finely-gifted mind, purified into harmony with itself, into keenness and justness of vision; above all, kindled into love and generous admiration. Thomas Carlyle heartordermean The cut of a garment speaks of intellect and talent and the color of temperament and heart. Thomas Carlyle cuttingcolorheart A dandy is a clothes-wearing man--a man whose trade, office, and existence consist in the wearing of clothes. Every faculty of his soul, spirit, person and purse is heroically consecrated to this one object--the wearing of clothes, wisely and well; so that, as others dress to live, he lives to dress. Thomas Carlyle clothesofficemen To say that we have a clear conscience is to utter a solecism; had we never sinned we should have had no conscience. Were defeat unknown, neither would victory be celebrated by songs of triumph. Thomas Carlyle victoryshould-havesong If I say that Shakespeare is the greatest of intellects, I have said all concerning him. But there is more in Shakespeare's intellect than we have yet seen. It is what I call an unconscious intellect; there is more virtue in it that he himself is aware of. Thomas Carlyle intellectvirtuesaid Skepticism . . . is not intellectual only it is moral also, a chronic atrophy and disease of the whole soul. Thomas Carlyle intellectualsoulwise Social Science, is not a 'gay science' but rueful, which finds the secret of this universe in 'supply and demand' and reduces the duty of human governors to that of letting men alone. Not a 'gay science', no, a dreary, desolate, and indeed quite abject and distressing one; what we might call, the dismal science Thomas Carlyle gayignorancemen Action hangs, as it were, dissolved in speech, in thoughts whereof speech is the shadow; and precipitates itself therefrom. The kind of speech in a man betokens the kind of action you will get from him. Thomas Carlyle shadowspeechmen
