Quotes by Carlyle, Thomas

The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what th >>

Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to >>

Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness. >>

Quotations about Thoughts and Thinking

It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put >>

In matters of conscience, first thoughts are best. In matters of prude >>

Nothing is more active than thought, for it travels over the universe, >>

Thought once awakened does not again slumber; unfolds itself into a System of Thought; grows, in man after man, generation after generation, --till its full stature is reached, and such System of Thought can grow no farther, but must give place to another.

Carlyle, Thomas