Maxioms by Thomas Carlyle
Don't promise twice what you can do at once.
Don't promise twice what you can do at once.
Poetry, therefore, we will call Musical Thought.
Poetry, therefore, we will call Musical Thought.
Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves
together; that at length they may emerge, full-formed and read more
Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves
together; that at length they may emerge, full-formed and
majestic, into the daylight of Life, which they are thenceforth
to rule.
The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.
The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.
Day of wrath that day of burning,
Seer and Sibyl speak concerning,
All the world to ashes read more
Day of wrath that day of burning,
Seer and Sibyl speak concerning,
All the world to ashes turning.
[Lat., Dies irae, dies illa!
Solvet saeclum in favilla,
Teste David cum Sybilla.]
