Quote #50
'Do the Duty which lies nearest thee,' which thou knowest to be a Duty! Thy second Duty will already have become clearer.
More from Thomas Carlyle
- Love not Pleasure; love God.
- As the Swiss inscription says: Sprechen ist silbern, Schweigen ist golden- 'Speech is silvern, Silence is golden'; or, as I might rather ex…
- Great men are the inspired (speaking and acting) texts of that divine Book of Revelations, wherof a chapter is completed from epoch to epoc…
- For is not a Symbol ever, to him who has eyes for it, some dimmer or clearer revelation of the God-like?
- Alas! the fearful Unbelief is unbelief in yourself.
- The highest ensign that men ever met and embraced under, the Cross itself, had no meaning save an accidental extrinsic one.
- With stupidity and sound digestion man may front much.
- That there should one Man die ignorant who had capacity for Knowledge, this I call a tragedy.