The Orator persuades and carries all with him, he knows not how; the Rhetorician can prove that he ought to have persuaded and carried all with him. Thomas Carlyle More Quotes by Thomas Carlyle More Quotes From Thomas Carlyle The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever. Thomas Carlyle yesterday forever time If you are looking at data over and over you better be taking away valuable insight every time. If you are constantly looking at data that isn't leading to strategic action stop wasting your time and look for more Actionable Analytics. Thomas Carlyle data over-you looks The purpose of man is in action not thought. Thomas Carlyle purpose action men If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated readings deserves to be read at all. Thomas Carlyle reading time book There is a perennial nobleness, and even sacredness, in work. Were he never so benighted, forgetful of his high calling, there is always hope in a man that actually and earnestly works: in idleness alone there is perpetual despair. Thomas Carlyle despair work men Man makes circumstances, and spiritually as well as economically, is the artificer of his own fortune. Thomas Carlyle circumstances fortune men All true work is sacred. Thomas Carlyle sacred labor Know what thou canst work at, and work at it like a Hercules. Thomas Carlyle effort knows All men, if they work not as in the great taskmaster's eye, will work wrong, and work unhappily for themselves and for you. Thomas Carlyle eye responsibility men Nine-tenths of the miseries and vices of mankind proceed from idleness. Thomas Carlyle misery vices nine All human souls, never so bedarkened, love light; light once kindled spreads till all is luminous. Thomas Carlyle spread light soul Labor is life: from the inmost heart of the worker rises his God-given force, the sacred celestial life-essence breathed into him by Almighty God! Thomas Carlyle sacred essence heart No mortal has a right to wag his tongue, much less to wag his pen, without saying something. Thomas Carlyle wags pens tongue If there be no enemy there's no fight. If no fight, no victory and if no victory there is no crown. Thomas Carlyle victory fighting enemy I too acknowledge the all-out omnipotence of early culture and nature; hereby we have either a doddered dwarf-bush, or a high-towering, wide-shadowing tree! either a sick yellow cabbage, or an edible luxuriant green one. Of a truth, it is the duty of all men, especially of all philosophers, to note down with accuracy the characteristic circumstances of their education,--what furthered, what hindered, what in any way modified it. Thomas Carlyle dwarves education men Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius. Thomas Carlyle poetic-license humor perfection Speech that leads not to action, still more that hinders it, is a nuisance on the earth. Thomas Carlyle nuisance speech earth He who cannot withal keep his mind to himself cannot practice any considerable thing whatsoever. Thomas Carlyle silence practice mind A word spoken in season, at the right moment; is the mother of ages. Thomas Carlyle age mother opportunity Labor, wide as the earth, has its summit in heaven. Thomas Carlyle summit earth heaven
