More from Thomas Carlyle

  1. A Parliament speaking through reporters to Buncombe and the twenty-seven millions, mostly fools.
  2. 'Genius' (which means transcendent capacity of taking trouble, first of all).
  3. Here numerous persons, with big wigs many of them, and austere aspect, whom I take to be Professors of the Dismal Science, start up in an a…
  4. Happy the people whose annals are blank in history books!
  5. He that works and does some Poem, not he that merely says one, is worthy of the name of Poet.
  6. This great maxim of Philosophy he had gathered by the teaching of nature alone: That man was created to work, not to speculate, or feel, or…
  7. So here hath been dawning Another blue Day: Think wilt thou let it Slip useless away.
  8. A well-written Life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.

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