Quotes by Carlyle, Thomas

The whole past is the procession of the present. >>

Thought is the parent of the deed. >>

Painful for a person is rebellious independence, only in loving compan >>

Quotations about Change

Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing. >>

We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are. >>

They must change who would be constant in happiness and wisdom. >>

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.

Carlyle, Thomas