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Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere.
By Thomas Carlyle
In a symbol there is concealment and yet revelation: here therefore, by silence and by speech acting together, comes a double significance. In the symbol proper, what we can call a symbol, there is ever, more or less distinctly and directly, some embodiment and revelation of the Infinite; the Infinite is made to blend itself with the Finite, to stand visible, and as it were, attainable there. By symbols, accordingly, is man guided and commanded, made happy, made wretched.
By Thomas Carlyle
In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government.
By Thomas Carlyle
It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.
By Thomas Carlyle
Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil; for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it.
By Thomas Carlyle
Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation.
By Thomas Carlyle
Real good breeding, as the people have it here, is one of the finest things now going in the world. The careful avoidance of all discussion, the swift hopping from topic to topic, does not agree with me; but the graceful style they do it with is beyond that of minuets!
By Thomas Carlyle
Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacle s, discouragement s, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.
By Thomas Carlyle
One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO.
By Thomas Carlyle
Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.
By Thomas Carlyle
No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.
By Thomas Carlyle
It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe.
By Thomas Carlyle
For man is not the creature and product of Mechanism; but, in a far truer sense, its creator and producer.
By Thomas Carlyle
Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being.
By Thomas Carlyle