What an enormous magnifier is tradition! How a thing grows in the human memory and in the human imagination, when love, worship, and all that lies in the human heart, is there to encourage it

Quote by Thomas Carlyle

Topics: Imagination Quotes, Love Quotes, Memory Quotes

Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.

Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.

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...

The true university of these days is a collection of books.

The true university of these days is a collection of books.

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.

The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is...

The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is...

Biography is the only true history

Biography is the only true history

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.

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...

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...

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...

The deadliest sin were the consciousness of no sin

The deadliest sin were the consciousness of no sin

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...

I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

Work alone is noble.

Work alone is noble.

Endurance is patience concentrated.

Endurance is patience concentrated.

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better,...

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better,...

The eye sees what it brings the power to see.

The eye sees what it brings the power to see.

If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere...

If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere...

Every noble work is at first impossible.

Every noble work is at first impossible.

Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong.

Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong.