Thomas Carlyle

The eye sees what it brings the power to see. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#brings #eye #see #sees

The fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#unbelief #yourself

The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#cannot #conquer #duty #fear #first

The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#asking #brave #done #enough #ever

The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#forever #innermost #outer #passes #same

The world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#mediocrities #republic #world

There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#great #great discovery #literary #literary men #literature

This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#inscrutable #magical #miracle #more #our

Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#fondest #glittering #objects #weak

What you see, but can't see over is as good as infinite. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#infinite #over #see #you