For, if a good speaker, never so eloquent, does not see into the fact, and is not speaking the truth of that - is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

Quote by Thomas Carlyle

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A force as of madness in the hands of reason has done all that was...

A force as of madness in the hands of reason has done all that was...

Music is well said to be the speech of angels.

Music is well said to be the speech of angels.

Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.

Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.

The glory of a workman, still more of a master-workman, that he does his work...

The glory of a workman, still more of a master-workman, that he does his work...

Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at...

Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at...

No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of...

No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of...

Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope; this...

Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope; this...

No person is important enough to make me angry.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

The spiritual is the parent of the practical.

The spiritual is the parent of the practical.

Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacle s, discouragement s, and impossibilities: It...

Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacle s, discouragement s, and impossibilities: It...

For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to...

For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to...

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

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

Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.

Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.

Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is...

Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is...

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

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

Go as far as you can see; when you get there you'll be able to...

Go as far as you can see; when you get there you'll be able to...

In books lies the soul of the whole past time.

In books lies the soul of the whole past time.

The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.

The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.

The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious.

The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious.

Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it...

Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it...