In idleness there is a perpetual despair

Quote by Thomas Carlyle

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Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the...

Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the...

Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.

Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.

What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with...

What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with...

Show me the person you honor, for I know better by that the kind of...

Show me the person you honor, for I know better by that the kind of...

Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn...

Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn...

No pressure, no diamonds.

No pressure, no diamonds.

What we might call, by way of eminence, the Dismal Science

What we might call, by way of eminence, the Dismal Science

The deepest depth of vulgarism is that of setting up money as the ark of...

The deepest depth of vulgarism is that of setting up money as the ark of...

Wonder is the basis of worship.

Wonder is the basis of worship.

No age seemed the age of romance to itself.

No age seemed the age of romance to itself.

A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.

A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.

The mystical bond of brotherhood makes all men brothers

The mystical bond of brotherhood makes all men brothers

What an enormous magnifier is tradition! How a thing grows in the human memory and...

What an enormous magnifier is tradition! How a thing grows in the human memory and...

The man who cannot laugh is not only fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils; but...

The man who cannot laugh is not only fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils; but...

Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.

Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.

It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.

It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.

One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes...

One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes...

Silence is as deep as eternity; speech, shallow as time.

Silence is as deep as eternity; speech, shallow as time.

A fair request should be followed by the deed in silence.

A fair request should be followed by the deed in silence.

To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.

To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.