The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.

Quote by Thomas Carlyle

Topics: Past Quotes

There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary...

There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary...

Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less...

Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less...

Sarcasm is the language of the devil, for which reason I have long since as...

Sarcasm is the language of the devil, for which reason I have long since as...

I don't pretend to understand the Universe - it's a great deal bigger than I...

I don't pretend to understand the Universe - it's a great deal bigger than I...

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...

Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything...

Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything...

The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak becomes...

The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak becomes...

Silence is more eloquent than words

Silence is more eloquent than words

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...

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...

History is the essence of innumerable biographies

History is the essence of innumerable biographies

Clever men are good, but they are not the best.

Clever men are good, but they are not the best.

Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.

Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.

What you see, but can't see over is as good as infinite.

What you see, but can't see over is as good as infinite.

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

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

A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.

A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.

The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they...

The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they...

No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.

No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.

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

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

Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with.

Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with.