Thomas Carlyle

No violent extreme endures. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#extreme #violent

Not what I have, but what I do is my kingdom. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#i do #kingdom

Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#die #dies #ever #goodness #in the past

Oh, give us the man who sings at his work. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#his #man #oh #sings #us

One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#convert #doubts #expel #his #into

Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#constantly #originality #quarrel #thing

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

— Thomas Carlyle

#must #originated #science #something #wrong

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

— Thomas Carlyle

#arts #both #brutish #dead #divine

The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#decently #desire #die #live #manfully

The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#end #man #noblest #though #thought