More from Thomas Carlyle

  1. He who takes not counsel of the Unseen and Silent, from him will never come real visibility and speech.
  2. A person usually has two reasons for doing something: a good reason and the real reason.
  3. Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
  4. A sad spectacle. If they be inhabited, what a scope for misery and folly. It they be not inhabited, what a waste of space.
  5. Every noble crown is, and on earth will forever be, a crown of thorns.
  6. Lord Bacon could as easily have created this planet as he could have written Hamlet.
  7. The English are a dumb people. They can do great acts, but not describe them.
  8. No pressure, no diamonds.

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