Thomas Carlyle Quotes - Page 5

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• Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil; for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Sarcastic, Sarcasm, Long

  Thomas Carlyle (1834). “Fraser's Magazine”, p.195

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• History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Being Alone, Creativity, People

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• Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Life, Motivational, Pain

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• Nature, after all, is still the grand agent in making poets.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Agents, Poet, Stills

  Thomas Carlyle (1872). “Works”, p.13

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• The crash of the whole solar and stellar systems could only kill you once.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Crash, Stellar, Whole

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• 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

  Change, Hope, Pain

  Thomas Carlyle (1872). “Works”, p.34

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• A man's religion consists, not of the many things he is in doubt of and tries to believe, but of the few he is assured of and has no need of effort for believing.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Believe, Men, Effort

  Thomas Carlyle (1872). “Works”, p.266

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• The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against disbelief

  Thomas Carlyle

  Battle, Belief, Ends

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• Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the architect of circumstance.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Bricks And Mortar, Empathy

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Nathan Haskell Dole, George Henry Lewes, Thomas Carlyle, John Storer Cobb (1902*). “The Works of Goethe”

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• Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do that with all thy might and leave the issues calmly to God.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Hands, Issues, Might

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• Only the person of worth can recognize the worth in others.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Persons

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• Doubt of any kind cannot be resolved except by action.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Doubt, Action, Kind

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• Language is called the garment of thought: however, it should rather be, language is the flesh-garment, the body, of thought.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Body, Flesh, Language

  'Sartor Resartus' (1834) bk. 1, ch. 11

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• Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Inspirational, Motivational, Hard Work

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• You can make even a parrot into a learned political economist - all he must learn are the two words "supply" and "demand."

  Thomas Carlyle

  Education, Two, Political

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• All great peoples are conservative.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Conservative

  Thomas Carlyle (2016). “Past and Present: The Historian”, p.159, 北戴河出版

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• If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Success, Done, Unjust

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• The essence of humor is sensibility; warm, tender fellow-feeling with all forms of existence.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Humor, Essence, Feelings

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• Great is journalism. Is not every able editor a ruler of the world, being the persuader of it?

  Thomas Carlyle

  Editors, World, Able

  Thomas Carlyle (2016). “The French Revolution: The Historian”, p.294, 北戴河出版

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• By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Change, Nature, Hate

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• Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Humor, Poetic License, Perfection

  Thomas Carlyle (1825). “Carlyle's Works ...”

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• If a man was great while living, he becomes tenfold greater when dead.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Fame, Greater

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.108, Lulu.com

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• The eternal stars shine out again, so soon as it is dark enough.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Stars, Dark, Shining

  "The Works of Thomas Carlyle".

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• There are but two ways of paying debt: Increase of industry in raising income, increase of thrift in laying out.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Two, Paying Debts, Income

  Thomas Carlyle (1870). “Past and Present”, p.113

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• Speech is too often not the art of concealing thought, but of quite stifling and suspending thought, so that there is none to conceal.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Art, Speech, Stifling

  Thomas Carlyle (2015). “Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdrockh”, p.196, The Floating Press

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