The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall. Thomas Carlyle More Quotes by Thomas Carlyle More Quotes From Thomas Carlyle Acorns are planted silently by some unnoticed breeze. Thomas Carlyle acorns breeze birth Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man. Thomas Carlyle lonely loneliness men I don't like to talk much with people who always agree with me. It is amusing to coquette with an echo for a little while, but one soon tires of it. Thomas Carlyle coquette echoes fake-people Poetry is the attempt which man makes to render his existence harmonious. Thomas Carlyle existence poetry men If a book comes from the heart, it will contrive to reach other hearts; all art and author-craft are of small amount to that. Thomas Carlyle reading book art Histories are a kind of distilled newspapers. Thomas Carlyle newspapers kind history Great is wisdom; infinite is the value of wisdom. It cannot be exaggerated; it is the highest achievement of man. Thomas Carlyle infinite wisdom men 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 orators oratory prove Neither let mistakes and wrong directions - of which every man, in his studies and elsewhere, falls into many - discourage you. There is precious instruction to be got by finding that we are wrong. Let a man try faithfully, manfully to be right, he will grow daily more and more right. It is, at bottom, the condition which all men have to cultivate themselves. Our very walking is an incessant falling - a falling and a catching of ourselves before we come actually to the pavement! - it is emblematic of all things a man does. Thomas Carlyle mistake men fall The end of Man is an Action, and not a Thought, though it were the noblest? Thomas Carlyle life-and-love action men Speak not at all, in any wise, till you have somewhat to speak; care not for the reward of your speaking, but simply and with undivided mind for the truth of your speaking. Thomas Carlyle care wise mind The world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was. Thomas Carlyle republic mediocrity world I don't pretend to understand the Universe - it's a great deal bigger than I am. Thomas Carlyle funny science history Every man is my superior in that I may learn from him. Thomas Carlyle every-man may men He that has done nothing has known nothing. Thomas Carlyle known done action Rich as we are in biography, a well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one; and there are certainly many more men whose history deserves to be recorded than persons willing and able to record it. Thomas Carlyle records biographies men Biography is the only true history. Thomas Carlyle my-biography biographies life Biography is the most universally pleasant and profitable of all reading. Thomas Carlyle biographies reading book Worship of a hero is transcendent admiration of a great man. Thomas Carlyle admiration hero men Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none. Thomas Carlyle repentance-and-forgiveness faults men
