Thomas Carlyle Quotes About Eternity
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What a wretched thing is all fame! A renown of the highest sort endures, say, for two thousand years. And then? Why, then, a fathomless eternity swallows it. Work for eternity; not the meagre rhetorical eternity of the periodical critics, but for the real eternity wherein dwelleth the Divine.
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Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
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So here hath been dawning Another blue day; Think, wilt thou let it Slip useless away? Out of eternity This new day is born, Into eternity At night will return.
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Out of Eternity the new day is born; Into Eternity at night will return.
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Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.
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Is not every meanest day the confluence of two eternities?
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History is a mighty dramos, enacted upon the theatre of times, with suns for lamps and eternity for a background.
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Earnestness alone makes life eternity.
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The wise man is but a clever infant, spelling letters from a hieroglyphical prophetic book, the lexicon of which lies in eternity.
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Nothing ever happens but once in all this world. What I do now I do once for all. It is over and gone, with all its eternity of solemn meaning.
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The Bible is the truest utterance that ever came by alphabetic letters from the soul of man, through which, as through a window divinely opened, all men can look into the stillness of eternity, and discern in glimpses their far-distant, long-forgotten home.
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One life; a little gleam of Time between two Eternities; no second chance to us for evermore!
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Speech is of time, silence is of eternity.
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He who has no vision of eternity has no hold on time.
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Eternity looks grander and kinder if time grow meaner and more hostile.
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