The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done. Thomas Carlyle More Quotes by Thomas Carlyle More Quotes From Thomas Carlyle All reform except a moral one will prove unavailing. Thomas Carlyle reform moral change Experience takes dreadfully high school-wages, but he teaches like no other. Thomas Carlyle experience wages school Time is the silent, never-resting thing ... rolling, rushing on, swift, silent, like an all-embracing oceantide, on which we and all the universe swim. Thomas Carlyle rushing rolling swim We arc the miracle of miracles, the great inscrutable mystery of God. Thomas Carlyle arcs mystery miracle Man is a tool-using animal. Thomas Carlyle tools animal men Nature, after all, is still the grand agent in making poets. Thomas Carlyle agents poet stills Rest is for the dead. Thomas Carlyle dying death All greatness is unconscious, or it is little and naught. Thomas Carlyle unconscious greatness littles We are not altogether here to tolerate. We are here to resist, to control and vanquish withal. Thomas Carlyle tolerate vanquish leadership Friendship, in the old heroic sense of that term, no longer exists. It is in reality no longer expected or recognized as a virtue among men. Thomas Carlyle lost-friendship men reality Tobacco smoke is the one element in which, by our European manners, men can sit silent together without embarrassment, and where no man is bound to speak one word more than he has actually and veritably got to say. Nay, rather every man is admonished and enjoined by the laws of honor, and even of personal ease, to stop short of that point; and at all events to hold his peace and take to his pipe again the instant he has spoken his meaning, if he chance to have any. Thomas Carlyle law smoking men There is but one thing without honor, smitten with eternal barrenness, inability to do or to be,-insincerity, unbelief. Thomas Carlyle inability infidelity honor It is the feeling of injustice that is insupportable to all men. Thomas Carlyle justice feelings men Not on morality, but on cookery, let us build our stronghold: there brandishing our frying-pan, as censer, let us offer sweet incense to the Devil, and live at ease on the fat things he has provided for his elect! Thomas Carlyle devil cooking sweet A man perfects himself by working. Thomas Carlyle work men In private life I never knew anyone interfere with other people's disputes but he heartily repented of it. Thomas Carlyle disputes life people History, as it lies at the root of all science, is also the first distinct product of man's spiritual nature, his earliest expression of what may be called thought. Thomas Carlyle spiritual science lying In a different time, in a different place, it is always some other side of our common human nature that has been developing itself. The actual truth is the sum of all these. Thomas Carlyle different sides common The steam-engine I call fire-demon and great; but it is nothing to the invention of fire. Thomas Carlyle invention demon fire 'Genius' which means transcendent capacity of taking trouble, first of all. Thomas Carlyle statistics genius mean
