01c. 1838 ADGranted the ship comes into harbour with shrouds and tackle damaged; the pilot is blameworthy; he has not been all-wise and all-powerful; but to know how blameworthy, tell us first whether his voyage has been round the globe or only to Ramsgate and the Isle of Dogs.Thomas Carlyle / quote ↗
02c. 1838 ADGreat, ever fruitful; profitable for reproof, for encouragement, for building up in manful purposes and works, are the words of those that in their day were men.Thomas Carlyle / quote ↗
03c. 1838 ADGreat is self-denial! Life goes all to ravels and tatters where that enters not.Thomas Carlyle / quote ↗
04c. 1838 ADGreat is wisdom; infinite is the value of wisdom. It cannot be exaggerated; it is the highest achievement of man.Thomas Carlyle / quote ↗
05c. 1838 ADGreat men are the fire-pillars in this dark pilgrimage of mankind; they stand as heavenly signs, ever-living witnesses of what has been, prophetic tokens of what may still be, the revealed, embodied possibilities of human nature.Thomas Carlyle / quote ↗
06c. 1838 ADGreat Men are the inspired (speaking and acting) Texts of that Divine Book of Revelations, whereof a Chapter is completed from epoch to epoch, and by some named History.Thomas Carlyle / quote ↗
07c. 1838 ADGreat men are the modellers, patterns, and in a wide sense creators, of whatsoever the general mass of men contrived to do and attain.Thomas Carlyle / quote ↗
08c. 1838 ADGreat souls are always royally submissive, reverent to what is over them; only small, mean souls are otherwise.Thomas Carlyle / quote ↗
09c. 1838 ADGunpowder makes all men alike tall.... Hereby at last is the Goliath powerless and the David resistless; savage animalism is nothing, inventive spiritualism is all.Thomas Carlyle / quote ↗
10c. 1838 ADHabit and imitation are the source of all working and all apprenticeship, of all practice and all learning, in this world.Thomas Carlyle / quote ↗
12c. 1838 ADHad not God made this world, and death too, it were an insupportable place.Thomas Carlyle / quote ↗
13c. 1838 ADHappy he for whom a kind heavenly sun brightens the ring of necessity into a ring of duty.Thomas Carlyle / quote ↗
14c. 1838 ADHappy men are full of the present, for its bounty suffices them; and wise men also, for its duties engage them. Our grand business undoubtedly is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.Thomas Carlyle / quote ↗
15c. 1838 ADHappy season of virtuous youth, when shame is still an impassable celestial barrier, and the sacred air-castles of hope have not shrunk into the mean clay hamlets of reality, and man by his nature is yet infinite and free.Thomas Carlyle / quote ↗
16c. 1838 ADHas any man, or any society of men, a truth to speak, a piece of spiritual work to do; they can nowise proceed at once and with the mere natural organs, but must first call a public meeting, appoint committees, issue prospectuses, eat a public dinner; in a word, construct or borrow machinery, wherewith to speak it and do it. Without machinery they were hopeless, helpless; a colony of Hindoo weavers squatting in the heart of Lancashire.Thomas Carlyle / quote ↗
17c. 1838 ADHave any deepest scientific individuals yet dived down to the foundations of the universe and gauged everything there? Did the Maker take them into His counsel, that they read His ground-plan of the incomprehensible All, and can say, This stands marked therein, and no more than this? Alas! not in any wise.Thomas Carlyle / quote ↗
18c. 1838 ADHave not all nations conceived their God as omnipresent and eternal, as existing in a universal Here, an everlasting Now?Thomas Carlyle / quote ↗
19c. 1838 ADHe has verily touched our hearts as with a live coal from the altar who in any way brings home to our heart the noble doings, feelings, darings, and endurances of a brother man.Thomas Carlyle / quote ↗
20c. 1838 ADHe is wise who can instruct us and assist us in the business of daily virtuous living; he who trains us to see old truth under academic formularies may be wise or not, as it chances, but we love to see wisdom in unpretending forms, to recognise her royal features under a week-day vesture.Thomas Carlyle / quote ↗
21c. 1838 ADHe that can write a true book to persuade England, is not he the bishop and archbishop, the primate of England and of all England?Thomas Carlyle / quote ↗
22c. 1838 ADHe that cannot be the servant of many will never be master, true guide, and deliverer of many.Thomas Carlyle / quote ↗
23c. 1838 ADHe that cannot keep his mind to himself cannot practise any considerable thing whatever.Thomas Carlyle / quote ↗
24c. 1838 ADHe that is the inferior of nothing can be the superior of nothing, the equal of nothing.Thomas Carlyle / quote ↗
