Maxioms by Thomas Carlyle
Is not every meanest day the confluence of two eternities?
Is not every meanest day the confluence of two eternities?
Patience is a virtue, and I'm learning patience. It's a tough lesson.
Patience is a virtue, and I'm learning patience. It's a tough lesson.
So here hath been dawning
Another blue day;
Think, wilt thou let it
Slip read more
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.
To-day is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our Works
and Thoughts, if they are always to be read more
To-day is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our Works
and Thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue
always the same? Change, indeed, is painful; yet ever needful;
and if Memory have its force and worth, so also has Hope.
It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to read more
It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe.