Quotes by Carlyle Thomas
Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man.
Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.
Thought once awakened does not again slumber; unfolds itself into a System of Thought; grows, in man after man, generation after generation, - till its full stature is reached, and such System of Thought can grow no farther, but must give place to another.
Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.
The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.
No violent extreme endures.
No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
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.
Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.
Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.
I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.
No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.
Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness; on the confines of the two everlasting empires, necessity and free will.
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.
No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.
The eye sees what it brings the power to see.
Endurance is patience concentrated.
Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.
No pressure, no diamonds.
Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.
In books lies the soul of the whole past time.
The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.
None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.
