Thomas Carlyle Quotes

  • Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.
    ~ Thomas Carlyle
  • Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.
    ~ Thomas Carlyle
  • I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
    ~ Thomas Carlyle
  • Endurance is patience concentrated.
    ~ Thomas Carlyle
  • A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.
    ~ Thomas Carlyle
  • How much lies in laughter: the cipher-key wherewith we decipher the whole man.
    ~ 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 loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.
    ~ Thomas Carlyle
  • We have profoundly forgotten everywhere that Cash-payment is not the sole relation of human beings.
    ~ Thomas Carlyle
  • The illimitable, silent, never-resting thing called Time, rolling, rushing on, swift, silent, like an all-embracing ocean-tide, on which we and all the universe swim like exhalations, like apparitions which are, and then are not.
    ~ Thomas Carlyle
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