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

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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

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...

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...

The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

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

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

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...

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

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

Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil; for which...

Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil; for which...

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.

Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness; on...

Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness; on...

Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.

Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.

Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.

Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.

No ghost was every seen by two pair of eyes.

No ghost was every seen by two pair of eyes.

Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard...

Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard...

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 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...

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

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

The spiritual is the parent of the practical.

The spiritual is the parent of the practical.

A man cannot make a pair of shoes rightly unless he do it in a...

A man cannot make a pair of shoes rightly unless he do it in a...

The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.

The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.