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

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...

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...

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...

As a first approximation, I define belief not as the object of believing (a dogma,...

As a first approximation, I define belief not as the object of believing (a dogma,...

Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.

Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.

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

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

Manners are stronger than laws

Manners are stronger than laws

It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind...

It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind...

It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age...

It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age...

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...

There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.

There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.

Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man...

Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man...

Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.

Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.

True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not...

True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not...

I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A...

I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A...

He who could foresee affairs three days in advance would be rich for thousands of...

He who could foresee affairs three days in advance would be rich for thousands of...

Endurance is patience concentrated.

Endurance is patience concentrated.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow...

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow...

Let each become all that he was created capable of being.

Let each become all that he was created capable of being.

The cut of a garment speaks of intellect and talent and the color of temperament...

The cut of a garment speaks of intellect and talent and the color of temperament...