Thomas Carlyle

Love is the only game that is not called on account of darkness. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#called #darkness #game #love #love is

Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope; this world of his is emphatically the place of hope. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#emphatically #his #hope #man #other

Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#men #ought #than #unless

Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#breadth #depth #height #linear #narrative

Necessity dispenseth with decorum. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#necessity

No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#amount #avail #honor #slightest #without

No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#believe #chain #compel #disbelieve #ever

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#elbow #giving #himself #lives #man

No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#bad #heartily #laughed #man #once

No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#given #great #great men #his #littleness