Thomas Carlyle quotes.

All 11 quotations by Thomas Carlyle in our collection.

“Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragements, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.”
— Thomas Carlyle
“Endurance is patience concentrated.”
— Thomas Carlyle
“There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.”
— Thomas Carlyle
“In books lies the soul of the whole past time.”
— Thomas Carlyle
“Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong.”
— Thomas Carlyle
“Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity speech is shallow as Time.”
— Thomas Carlyle
“There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.”
— Thomas Carlyle
“Work alone is noble.”
— Thomas Carlyle
“Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.”
— Thomas Carlyle
“It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.”
— Thomas Carlyle
“All great peoples are conservative.”
— Thomas Carlyle

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