{"author":"Thomas Carlyle","author_id":"Thomas+Carlyle","total_quotes":155,"quotes":[{"text":"Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.","author":"Thomas Carlyle","tags":["thankful","age","old age "],"id":2292,"author_id":"Thomas+Carlyle"},{"text":"Be not a slave of words.","author":"Thomas Carlyle","tags":["words","slave "],"id":5108,"author_id":"Thomas+Carlyle"},{"text":"Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragements, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.","author":"Thomas Carlyle","tags":["perseverance","strong "],"id":6862,"author_id":"Thomas+Carlyle"},{"text":"Of all paths a man could strike into  there is  at any given moment  a best path which  here and now  it were of all things wisest for him to do. To find this path  and walk in it  is the one thing needful for him.","author":"Thomas Carlyle","tags":["decisions"],"id":10971,"author_id":"Thomas+Carlyle"},{"text":"Hero-worship exists  has existed  and will forever exist  universally among mankind.","author":"Thomas Carlyle","tags":["hero"],"id":14180,"author_id":"Thomas+Carlyle"},{"text":"Some comfort it would have been, could I, like a Faust, have fancied myself tempted and tormented of the Devil; for a Hell, as I imagine, without Life, though only Diabolic Life, were more frightful: but in our age of Downpulling and Disbelief, the very Devil has been pulled down, you cannot so much as believe in a Devil. To me the Universe was all void of Life, of Purpose, of Volition, even of Hostility: it was one huge, dead, immeasurable Steam-engine, rolling on, in its dead indifference, to grind me limb from limb.","author":"Thomas Carlyle","tags":["cosmic-indifference","depression"],"id":19986,"author_id":"Thomas+Carlyle"},{"text":"The end of man is action.","author":"Thomas Carlyle","tags":["getting","going"],"id":23515,"author_id":"Thomas+Carlyle"},{"text":"Burke said there were three Estates in Parliament  but in the reporters' gallery yonder  there sat a fourth Estate more important than them all.","author":"Thomas Carlyle","tags":["newspapers","journalism"],"id":27153,"author_id":"Thomas+Carlyle"},{"text":"Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it; better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.","author":"Thomas Carlyle","tags":["positive","time","sad "],"id":30784,"author_id":"Thomas+Carlyle"},{"text":"Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you'll be able to see further.","author":"Thomas Carlyle","tags":["inspirational-attitude"],"id":31586,"author_id":"Thomas+Carlyle"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":155,"pages":16,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}