Sophocles 12/16/23 Sophocles 12/16/23 Thomas Carlyle: 'For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.' Read More Sophocles 12/16/23 Sophocles 12/16/23 Thomas Carlyle: 'If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.' Read More Sophocles 12/16/23 Sophocles 12/16/23 Thomas Carlyle: 'History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.' Read More Sophocles 12/16/23 Sophocles 12/16/23 Thomas Carlyle: 'All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.' Read More Sophocles 12/16/23 Sophocles 12/16/23 Thomas Carlyle: 'All great peoples are conservative.' Read More Sophocles 12/16/23 Sophocles 12/16/23 Thomas Carlyle: 'It is a strange trade that of advocacy. Your intellect, your highest heavenly gift is hung up in the shop window like a loaded pistol for sale.' Read More Sophocles 12/16/23 Sophocles 12/16/23 Thomas Carlyle: 'Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.' Read More Sophocles 12/16/23 Sophocles 12/16/23 Thomas Carlyle: 'No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.' Read More Sophocles 12/16/23 Sophocles 12/16/23 Thomas Carlyle: 'The eye sees what it brings the power to see.' Read More Sophocles 12/16/23 Sophocles 12/16/23 Thomas Carlyle: 'Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.' Read More Sophocles 12/16/23 Sophocles 12/16/23 Thomas Carlyle: 'A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.' Read More Sophocles 12/16/23 Sophocles 12/16/23 Thomas Carlyle: 'Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.' Read More Sophocles 12/16/23 Sophocles 12/16/23 Thomas Carlyle: 'Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.' Read More Sophocles 12/16/23 Sophocles 12/16/23 Thomas Carlyle: 'The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.' Read More Sophocles 12/16/23 Sophocles 12/16/23 Thomas Carlyle: 'War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle.' Read More Sophocles 12/16/23 Sophocles 12/16/23 Thomas Carlyle: 'If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.' Read More Sophocles 12/16/23 Sophocles 12/16/23 Thomas Carlyle: 'The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.' Read More Sophocles 12/16/23 Sophocles 12/16/23 Thomas Carlyle: 'No ghost was every seen by two pair of eyes.' Read More Sophocles 12/16/23 Sophocles 12/16/23 Thomas Carlyle: 'Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.' Read More Sophocles 12/16/23 Sophocles 12/16/23 Thomas Carlyle: 'Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.' Read More Newer Posts Older Posts
Sophocles 12/16/23 Sophocles 12/16/23 Thomas Carlyle: 'For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.' Read More
Sophocles 12/16/23 Sophocles 12/16/23 Thomas Carlyle: 'If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.' Read More
Sophocles 12/16/23 Sophocles 12/16/23 Thomas Carlyle: 'History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.' Read More
Sophocles 12/16/23 Sophocles 12/16/23 Thomas Carlyle: 'All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.' Read More
Sophocles 12/16/23 Sophocles 12/16/23 Thomas Carlyle: 'All great peoples are conservative.' Read More
Sophocles 12/16/23 Sophocles 12/16/23 Thomas Carlyle: 'It is a strange trade that of advocacy. Your intellect, your highest heavenly gift is hung up in the shop window like a loaded pistol for sale.' Read More
Sophocles 12/16/23 Sophocles 12/16/23 Thomas Carlyle: 'Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.' Read More
Sophocles 12/16/23 Sophocles 12/16/23 Thomas Carlyle: 'No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.' Read More
Sophocles 12/16/23 Sophocles 12/16/23 Thomas Carlyle: 'The eye sees what it brings the power to see.' Read More
Sophocles 12/16/23 Sophocles 12/16/23 Thomas Carlyle: 'Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.' Read More
Sophocles 12/16/23 Sophocles 12/16/23 Thomas Carlyle: 'A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.' Read More
Sophocles 12/16/23 Sophocles 12/16/23 Thomas Carlyle: 'Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.' Read More
Sophocles 12/16/23 Sophocles 12/16/23 Thomas Carlyle: 'Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.' Read More
Sophocles 12/16/23 Sophocles 12/16/23 Thomas Carlyle: 'The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.' Read More
Sophocles 12/16/23 Sophocles 12/16/23 Thomas Carlyle: 'War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle.' Read More
Sophocles 12/16/23 Sophocles 12/16/23 Thomas Carlyle: 'If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.' Read More
Sophocles 12/16/23 Sophocles 12/16/23 Thomas Carlyle: 'The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.' Read More
Sophocles 12/16/23 Sophocles 12/16/23 Thomas Carlyle: 'No ghost was every seen by two pair of eyes.' Read More
Sophocles 12/16/23 Sophocles 12/16/23 Thomas Carlyle: 'Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.' Read More
Sophocles 12/16/23 Sophocles 12/16/23 Thomas Carlyle: 'Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.' Read More