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The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.

I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

Thomas Carlyle

It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.

Thomas Carlyle

Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong.

Thomas Carlyle

No ghost was every seen by two pair of eyes.

Thomas Carlyle

Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.

Thomas Carlyle

For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.

Thomas Carlyle

The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.

Thomas Carlyle

For, if a good speaker, never so eloquent, does not see into the fact, and is not speaking the truth of that - is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

Thomas Carlyle

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

Thomas Carlyle

Worship is transcendent wonder.

Thomas Carlyle

I don't pretend to understand the Universe - it's a great deal bigger than I am.

Thomas Carlyle

Endurance is patience concentrated.

Thomas Carlyle

Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.

Thomas Carlyle

The eye sees what it brings the power to see.

Thomas Carlyle

To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.

Thomas Carlyle

Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.

Thomas Carlyle

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Thomas Carlyle

Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.

Thomas Carlyle

In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government.

Thomas Carlyle

The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity.

Thomas Carlyle

In books lies the soul of the whole past time.

Thomas Carlyle

The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

Thomas Carlyle

Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.

Thomas Carlyle

Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist.

Thomas Carlyle

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Thomas Carlyle

The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.

Thomas Carlyle

A man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind.

Thomas Carlyle

A man cannot make a pair of shoes rightly unless he do it in a devout manner.

Thomas Carlyle

Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it; better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.

Thomas Carlyle

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Thomas Carlyle

The spiritual is the parent of the practical.

Thomas Carlyle

A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy.

Thomas Carlyle

Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.

Thomas Carlyle

It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.

Thomas Carlyle

The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.

Thomas Carlyle

Love is the only game that is not called on account of darkness.

Thomas Carlyle