Scottish - Philosopher | December 4, 1795 - February 5, 1881
No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.
Thomas Carlyle
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Happy the people whose annals are vacant.
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History, a distillation of rumour.
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A man cannot make a pair of shoes rightly unless he do it in a devout manner.
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A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun.
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Man's unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite.
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For, if a good speaker, never so eloquent, does not see into the fact, and is not speaking the truth of that - is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?
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I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.
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