Quote #48

Great men are the inspired (speaking and acting) texts of that divine Book of Revelations, wherof a chapter is completed from epoch to epoch, and by some named History.

More from Thomas Carlyle

  1. Alas! the fearful Unbelief is unbelief in yourself.
  2. Love not Pleasure; love God.
  3. With stupidity and sound digestion man may front much.
  4. 'Do the Duty which lies nearest thee,' which thou knowest to be a Duty! Thy second Duty will already have become clearer.
  5. Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the Devil; for which reason I have, long since, as good as renounced it.
  6. As the Swiss inscription says: Sprechen ist silbern, Schweigen ist golden- 'Speech is silvern, Silence is golden'; or, as I might rather ex…
  7. What you see, yet can not see over, is as good as infinite.
  8. For is not a Symbol ever, to him who has eyes for it, some dimmer or clearer revelation of the God-like?

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