Thomas Carlyle Quotes About Heart

Quotes about: Heart

• If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Music, Heart, Looks

• A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Love, Inspirational, Anniversary

  Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (2010). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.57, Cambridge University Press

• It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Heart, Mind

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.50, Lulu.com

• The word of Mohammad is a voice direct from nature's own heart - all else is wind in comparison.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Heart, Wind, Voice

• Let one who wants to move and convince others, first be convinced and moved themselves. If a person speaks with genuine earnestness the thoughts, the emotion and the actual condition of their own heart, others will listen because we all are knit together by the tie of sympathy.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Moving, Heart, Ties

• A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Laughter, Kindness, Heart

• The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Heart, Men, Vanity

• What an enormous magnifier is tradition! How a thing grows in the human memory and in the human imagination, when love, worship, and all that lies in the human heart, is there to encourage it

  Thomas Carlyle

  Memories, Lying, Heart

  Thomas Carlyle (1841). “On Heroes, Hero-Worship,&the Heroic in History. Six Lectures. Reported with emendations and additions”, p.41

• Men's hearts ought not to be set against one another, but set with one another and all against evil only.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Heart, Men, Evil

  Thomas Carlyle (1870). “Past and Present”, p.21

• Cease to brag to me of America, and its model institutions and constitutions. America, too, will have to strain its energies, crack its sinews, and all but break its heart, as the rest of us have had to do, in thousand-fold wrestle with the Pythons, and mud-demons, before it can become a babitation for the gods.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Heart, America, Python

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.496, Lulu.com

• Feel it in thy heart and then say whether it is of God!

  Thomas Carlyle

  Heart, Feels

  Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (2010). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.155, Cambridge University Press

• The cut of a garment speaks of intellect and talent and the color of temperament and heart.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Heart, Cutting, Color

• Trust not the heart of that man for whom old clothes are not venerable.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Heart, Men, Clothes

  1833-4 Sartor Resartus, bk.3, ch.6.

• Let him who gropes painfully in darkness or uncertain light, and prays vehemently that the dawn may ripen into day, lay this precept well to heart: "Do the duty which lies nearest to thee," which thou know to be a duty! Thy second duty will already have become clearer.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Lying, Heart, Light

  1833-4 Sartor Resartus, bk.2, ch.9.

• If a book comes from the heart, it will contrive to reach other hearts; all art and author-craft are of small amount to that.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Art, Book, Reading

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.136, Lulu.com

• Laws, written, if not on stone tables, yet on the azure of infinitude, in the inner heart of God's creation, certain as life, certain as death, are there, and thou shalt not disobey them.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Heart, Science, Law

  Thomas Carlyle (1872). “Past and Present”, p.198

• It is great, and there is no other greatness-to make one nook of God's Creation more fruitful, better, more worthy of God; to make some human heart a little wiser, manlier, happier-more blessed.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Blessed, Heart, Greatness

• A vein of poetry exists in the hearts of all men.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Heart, Men, Poetry

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.147, Lulu.com

• True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Love, Cute, Happiness

  Thomas Carlyle, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Swasey McKean, Charles Stearns Wheeler (1838). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays”, p.18

• It is not to taste sweet things; but to do noble and true things, and vindicate himself under God's heaven as a God-made man, that the poorest son of Adam dimly longs. Show him the way of doing that, the dullest day-drudge kindles into a hero. They wrong man greatly who say he is to be seduced by ease. Difficulty, abnegation, martyrdom, death, are the allurements that act on the heart of man. Kindle the inner genial life of him, you have a flame that burns up all lower considerations.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Sweet, Hero, Heart

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.139, Lulu.com

• In this world there is one godlike thing, the essence of all that was or ever will be of godlike in this world: the veneration done to Human Worth by the hearts of men.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Appreciation, Heart, Men

  "The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle".

• Labor is life: from the inmost heart of the worker rises his God-given force, the sacred celestial life-essence breathed into him by Almighty God!

  Thomas Carlyle

  Heart, Essence, Sacred

  Thomas Carlyle (1843). “Past and Present”, p.113

• Taste, if it mean anything but a paltry connoisseurship, must mean a general susceptibility to truth and nobleness, a sense to discern, and a heart to love and reverence all beauty, order, goodness, wheresoever, or in whatsoever forms and accompaniments they are to be seen. This surely implies, as its chief condition, not any given external rank or situation, but a finely-gifted mind, purified into harmony with itself, into keenness and justness of vision; above all, kindled into love and generous admiration.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Mean, Heart, Order

  Thomas Carlyle (1840). “Critical and miscellaneous essays, collected and republ”, p.50

• They wrong man greatly who say he is to be seduced by ease. Difficulty, abnegation, martyrdom, death are the allurements that act on the heart of man.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Heart, Men, Ease

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.139, Lulu.com

• Nakedness, hunger, distress of all kinds, death itself have been cheerfully suffered, when the heart was right. It is the feeling of injustice that is insupportable to all men.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Heart, Men, Feelings

  Chartism ch. 5 (1839)

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