Quotes by Carlyle Thomas
Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
Work alone is noble.
Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
The cut of a garment speaks of intellect and talent and the color of temperament and heart.
History, a distillation of rumour.
Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.
Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere.
All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.
To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.
A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun.
Clever men are good, but they are not the best.
Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
All great peoples are conservative.
Man's unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite.
Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
What you see, but can't see over is as good as infinite.
Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
Thought is the parent of the deed.
For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.
Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together; that at length they may emerge, full-formed and majestic, into the delight of life, which they are thenceforth to rule.
Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope; this world of his is emphatically the place of hope.
