Over 40,000 Famous Quotes Sorted By Topic and Author

The unspeakable Turk should be immediately struck out of the question, and the country be left to honest European guidance.
Topic: Turkey
Author: Thomas Carlyle
The fearful Unbelief is unbelief in yourself.
Topic: Unbelief
Author: Thomas Carlyle
The fearful Unbelief is unbelief in yourself.
Topic: Unbelief
Author: Thomas Carlyle
Violence does even justice unjustly.
Topic: Violence
Author: Thomas Carlyle
The eye sees what it brings the power to see.
Topic: Vision
Author: 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.
Topic: Vocation
Author: Thomas Carlyle
"A fair day's wage for a fair day's work": it is as just a demand as governed men ever made of governing. It is the everlasting right of man.
Topic: Wage
Author: Thomas Carlyle
The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.
Topic: Weakness
Author: Thomas Carlyle
Midas-eared Mammonism, double-barrelled Dilettantism, and their thousand adjuncts and corollaries, are not the Law by which God Almighty has appointed this His universe to go.
Topic: Wealth
Author: Thomas Carlyle
Wonder is the basis of worship.
Topic: Wonder
Author: Thomas Carlyle
High Air-castles are cunningly built of Words, the Words well bedded also in good Logic-mortar; wherein, however, no Knowledge will come to lodge.
Topic: Words
Author: 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.
Topic: Work
Author: Thomas Carlyle
Genuine Work alone, what thou workest faithfully, that is eternal, as the Almighty Founder and World-Builder himself.
Topic: Work
Author: Thomas Carlyle
All work, even cotton-spinning, is noble; work is alone noble.
Topic: Work
Author: Thomas Carlyle
Man always worships something; always he sees the Infinite shadowed forth in something finite; and indeed can and must so see it in any finite thing, once tempt him well to fix his eyes thereon.
Topic: Worship
Author: Thomas Carlyle
Youth is to all the glad reason of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.
Topic: Youth
Author: Thomas Carlyle
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