274 Quotations by Thomas Carlyle
						
					
					
- 161. Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard wor ... 

 
- 162. Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil; for which reason I have long since a ... 

 
- 163. Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong. 

 
- 164. Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious. 

 
- 165. Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious. 

 
- 166. Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of a man you are. It shows me what your ideal o ... 

 
- 167. Show me the person you honor, for I know better by that the kind of person you are. For you show me  ... 

 
- 168. Silence is as deep as eternity, speech as shallow as time. 

 
- 169. Silence is more eloquent than words. 

 
- 170. Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves. 

 
- 171. Skepticism, as I said, is not intellectual only; it is moral also; a chronic atrophy and disease of  ... 

 
- 172. Society is founded upon cloth. 

 
- 173. Song is the heroics of speech. 

 
- 174. Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts. 

 
- 175. Speech is of time, silence is of eternity. 

 
- 176. Stern accuracy in inquiring, bold imagination in describing, these are the cogs on which history soa ... 

 
- 177. Stern accuracy in inquiring, bold imagination in describing, these are the cogs on which history soa ... 

 
- 178. Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether. 

 
- 179. Teach a parrot the terms supply and demand and you've got an economist. 

 
- 180. Tell a man he is brave, and you help him to become so 

 
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