01c. 1838 ADImperfections cling to a man, which, if he wait till he have brushed off entirely, he will spin for ever on his axis, advancing nowhither.Thomas Carlyle / quote ↗
02c. 1838 ADImpossible is the precept "Know thyself," till it be translated into this partially possible one, "Know what thou canst work at."Thomas Carlyle / quote ↗
03c. 1838 AD"Impossible," when Truth and Mercy and the everlasting voice of Nature order, has no place in the brave man's dictionary.Thomas Carlyle / quote ↗
04c. 1838 ADIn a symbol there is concealment and yet revelation, silence and speech acting together, some embodiment and revelation of the infinite, made to blend itself with the finite, to stand visible, and, as it were, attainable there.Thomas Carlyle / quote ↗
05c. 1838 ADIn a valiant suffering for others, not in a slothful making others suffer for us, did nobleness ever lie.Thomas Carlyle / quote ↗
06c. 1838 ADIn all battles, if you await the issue, each fighter has prospered according to his right. His right and his might, at the close of the account, were the same.Thomas Carlyle / quote ↗
07c. 1838 ADIn all human narrative, it is the battle only, and not the victory, that can be dwelt on with advantage.Thomas Carlyle / quote ↗
08c. 1838 ADIn all provinces there are artists and artisans; men who labour mechanically in a department, without eye for the whole, not feeling that there is a whole; and men who inform and ennoble the humblest department with an idea of the whole, and habitually know that only in the whole is the partial to be truly discerned.Thomas Carlyle / quote ↗
09c. 1838 ADIn all true work, were it but true hand-labour, there is something of divineness.Thomas Carlyle / quote ↗
10c. 1838 ADIn all vital action the manifest purpose and effort of Nature is, that we should be unconscious of it.... Nature so meant it with us; it is so we are made.Thomas Carlyle / quote ↗
11c. 1838 ADIn every epoch of the world, the great event, parent of all others, is it not the arrival of a thinker in the world?Thomas Carlyle / quote ↗
12c. 1838 ADIn every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment.Thomas Carlyle / quote ↗
13c. 1838 ADIn every ship there must be a seeing pilot, not a mere hearing one.Thomas Carlyle / quote ↗
14c. 1838 ADIn even the wisest soul lies a whole world of internal madness, an authentic demon-empire; out of which, indeed, his world of wisdom has been creatively built together, and now rests there, as on its dark foundation does a habitable flowery earth-rind.Thomas Carlyle / quote ↗
15c. 1838 ADIn long-drawn systole and long-drawn diastole must the period of faith alternate with the period of denial; must the vernal growth, the summer luxuriance of all opinions, spiritual representations and creations, be followed by and again follow the autumnal decay, the winter dissolution.Thomas Carlyle / quote ↗
16c. 1838 ADIn no time or epoch can the Highest be spoken of in words—not in many words, I think, ever.Thomas Carlyle / quote ↗
17c. 1838 ADIn our age of down-pulling and disbelief, the very devil has been pulled down; you cannot so much as believe in a devil.Thomas Carlyle / quote ↗
18c. 1838 ADIn radiant, all-irradiating insight, a burning interest, and the glorious, melodious, perennial veracity that results from these two, lies the soul of all worth in all speaking men.Thomas Carlyle / quote ↗
19c. 1838 ADIn the denial of self is the beginning of all that is truly generous and noble.Thomas Carlyle / quote ↗
20c. 1838 ADIn the destitution of the wild desert does our young Ishmael acquire for himself the highest of all possessions, that of self-help.Thomas Carlyle / quote ↗
21c. 1838 ADIn the divine commandment, "Thou shalt not steal," if well understood, is comprised the whole Hebrew decalogue, with Solon's and Lycurgus's constitutions, Justinian's pandects, the Code Napoleon, and all codes, catechisms, divinities, moralities whatsoever that man has devised (and enforced with altar-fire and gallows-ropes) for his social guidance.Thomas Carlyle / quote ↗
22c. 1838 ADIn the dullest existence there is a sheen of inspiration or of madness (thou partly hast it in thy choice which of the two) that gleams in from the circumambient eternity, and colours with its own hues our little islet of time.Thomas Carlyle / quote ↗
24c. 1838 ADIn the grimmest rocky wildernesses of existence there are blessed well-springs, there is an everlasting guiding star.Thomas Carlyle / quote ↗
