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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Ill-health, of body or of mind, is defeat. Health alone is victory. Let all men,...

Ill-health, of body or of mind, is defeat. Health alone is victory. Let all men,...

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

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

Parliament will train you to talk; and above all things to hear, with patience, unlimited...

Parliament will train you to talk; and above all things to hear, with patience, unlimited...

The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough...

The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough...

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...

Do the duty which lieth nearest to thee! Thy second duty will already have become...

Do the duty which lieth nearest to thee! Thy second duty will already have become...

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...

Wonderful ''Force of Public Opinion!'' We must act and walk in all points as it...

Wonderful ''Force of Public Opinion!'' We must act and walk in all points as it...

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...

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

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

Foolish men imagine that because judgement for an evil thing is delayed, there is no...

Foolish men imagine that because judgement for an evil thing is delayed, there is no...

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

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

Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can.

Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can.

It is a strange trade that of advocacy. Your intellect, your highest heavenly gift is...

It is a strange trade that of advocacy. Your intellect, your highest heavenly gift is...

Manners are stronger than laws

Manners are stronger than laws

Oh, give us the man who sings at his work.

Oh, give us the man who sings at his work.

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.

The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to...

The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to...

The world is full of fools and faint hearts; and yet everyone has courage enough...

The world is full of fools and faint hearts; and yet everyone has courage enough...

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is...

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is...