274 Quotations by Thomas Carlyle
- 1. A fair day's wages for a fair day's work.
- 2. A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men.
- 3. A man cannot make a pair of shoes rightly unless he do it in a devout manner.
- 4. A man lives by believing in something, not by debating and arguing about many things.
- 5. A man lives by believing something; not by debating and arguing about many things.
- 6. A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and ...
- 7. A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequali ...
- 8. A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.
- 9. A person usually has two reasons for doing something: a good reason and the real reason.
- 10. A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.
- 11. A person with half volition goes backwards and forwards, but makes no progress on even the smoothest ...
- 12. A sad spectacle. If they be inhabited, what a scope for misery and folly. If they be not inhabited, ...
- 13. A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
- 14. Action hangs, as it were, "dissolved" in speech, in thoughts whereof speech is the shadow; and preci ...
- 15. Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundre ...
- 16. After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in ...
- 17. All evil is like a nightmare; the instant you stir under it, the evil is gone.
- 18. All great peoples are conservative.
- 19. All men, if they work not as in the great taskmaster's eye, will work wrong, and work unhappily for ...
- 20. As a first approximation, I define belief not as the object of believing (a dogma, a program, etc.) ...
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