Quote #16
The three great elements of modern civilization, gunpowder, printing, and the Protestant religion.
More from Thomas Carlyle
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- Literary men are...a perpetual priesthood.
- A well-written Life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
- In every man's writings, the character of the writer must lie recorded.
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- Happy the people whose annals are blank in history books!
- Our grand business undoubtedly is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.