Work alone is noble.

Quote by Thomas Carlyle

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

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

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

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

A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.

A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.

Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.

Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.

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...

Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.

Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.

If there be no enemy there's no fight. If no fight, no victory and if...

If there be no enemy there's no fight. If no fight, no victory and if...

Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.

Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished...

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished...

Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct.

Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct.

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...

Music is well said to be the speech of angels; in fact, nothing among the...

Music is well said to be the speech of angels; in fact, nothing among the...

All great peoples are conservative.

All great peoples are conservative.

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.

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.

We do everything by custom, even believe by it; our very axioms, let us boast...

We do everything by custom, even believe by it; our very axioms, let us boast...

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...

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

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

The eye sees what it brings the power to see.

The eye sees what it brings the power to see.

Worship is transcendent wonder.

Worship is transcendent wonder.