Quote #11

'Genius' (which means transcendent capacity of taking trouble, first of all).

More from Thomas Carlyle

  1. A healthy hatred of scoundrels.
  2. Happy the people whose annals are blank in history books!
  3. A Parliament speaking through reporters to Buncombe and the twenty-seven millions, mostly fools.
  4. 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…
  5. 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…
  6. A well-written Life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
  7. He that works and does some Poem, not he that merely says one, is worthy of the name of Poet.
  8. The great law of culture is: Let each become all that he was created capable of being.

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