01c. 1838 ADLabour is life. From the inmost heart of the worker rises his God-given force—the sacred celestial life-essence breathed into him by Almighty God.Thomas Carlyle / quote ↗
03c. 1838 ADLand is the right basis of an aristocracy. No true aristocracy but must possess the land.Thomas Carlyle / quote ↗
05c. 1838 ADLarge masses of mankind, in every society of our Europe, are no longer capable of living at all by the things which have been.Thomas Carlyle / quote ↗
07c. 1838 ADLaws are not our life, only the house wherein our life is led; nay, they are but the bare walls of the house; all whose essential furniture, the inventions and traditions and daily habits that regulate and support our existence, are the work not of Dracos and Hampdens, but of Phœnician mariners, of Italian masons, and Saxon metallurgists, of philosophers, alchymists, prophets, and the long-forgotten train of artists and artisans, who from the first have been jointly teaching us how to think and how to act, how to rule over spiritual and physical nature.Thomas Carlyle / quote ↗
08c. 1838 ADLaws, written, if not on stone tables, yet on the azure of infinitude, in the inner heart of God's creation, certain as life, certain as death, are there, and thou shalt not disobey them.Thomas Carlyle / quote ↗
09c. 1838 ADLess in rising into lofty abstractions lies the difficulty, than in seeing well and lovingly the complexities of what is at hand.Thomas Carlyle / quote ↗
10c. 1838 ADLet a man do his work; the fruit of it is the care of Another than he.Thomas Carlyle / quote ↗
11c. 1838 ADLet but the mirror be clear, this is the great point; the picture must and will be genuine.Thomas Carlyle / quote ↗
12c. 1838 ADLet him who gropes painfully in darkness or uncertain light, and prays vehemently that the dawn may ripen into day, lay this precept well to heart: "Do the duty which lies nearest thee," which thou knowest to be a duty! Thy second duty will already have become clearer.Thomas Carlyle / quote ↗
13c. 1838 ADLet him who would move and convince others be first moved and convinced himself. Let a man but speak forth with genuine earnestness the thought, the emotion, the actual condition of his own heart, and other men, so strangely are we all knit together by the tie of sympathy, must and will give heed to him.Thomas Carlyle / quote ↗
14c. 1838 ADLet no man doubt the omnipotence of nature, doubt the majesty of man's soul; let no lonely unfriended son of genius despair. If he have the will, the right will, then the power also has not been denied him.Thomas Carlyle / quote ↗
17c. 1838 ADLet us know what to love, and we shall know also what to reject; what to affirm, and we shall know also what to deny; but it is dangerous to begin with denial and fatal to end with it.Thomas Carlyle / quote ↗
18c. 1838 ADLife everywhere will swallow a man, unless he rise and try vigorously to swallow it.Thomas Carlyle / quote ↗
20c. 1838 ADLife is sacred; but there is something more sacred still: woe to him who does not know that withal.Thomas Carlyle / quote ↗
22c. 1838 ADLife was never a May-game for men; not play at all, but hard work, that makes the sinews sore and the heart sore.Thomas Carlyle / quote ↗
23c. 1838 ADLight is coming into the world; men love not darkness; they do love light.Thomas Carlyle / quote ↗
24c. 1838 ADLight, or, failing that, lightning—the world can take its choice.Thomas Carlyle / quote ↗
