War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle.
Thomas Carlyle
Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
Thomas Carlyle
What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
Thomas Carlyle
What you see, but can't see over is as good as infinite.
Thomas Carlyle
When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent.
Thomas Carlyle
When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.
Thomas Carlyle
Woe to him that claims obedience when it is not due; woe to him that refuses it when it is.
Thomas Carlyle
Wonder is the basis of worship.
Thomas Carlyle
Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it; better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.
Thomas Carlyle
Work alone is noble.
Thomas Carlyle
Worship is transcendent wonder.
Thomas Carlyle
Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.
Thomas Carlyle
Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.
Thomas Carlyle
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