Tag: Thomas Carlyle
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Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together; that at length they may emerge, full-formed and majestic, into the delight of life, which they are thenceforth to rule.
Thomas Carlyle
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Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
Thomas Carlyle
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The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
Thomas Carlyle
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Worship is transcendent wonder.
Thomas Carlyle
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Woe to him that claims obedience when it is not due; woe to him that refuses it when it is.
Thomas Carlyle
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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
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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
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Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.
Thomas Carlyle
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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
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None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.
Thomas Carlyle