Quote #31

All greatness is unconscious, or it is little and naught.

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  1. Literature is the Thought of thinking Souls.
  2. The uttered part of a man's life, let us always repeat, bears to the unuttered, unconscious part a small unknown proportion. He himself nev…
  3. No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offense.
  4. It can be said of him [Scott], when he departed he took a man's life along with him. No sounder piece of British manhood was put together i…
  5. Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.
  6. Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.
  7. There is no heroic poem in the world but is at bottom a biography, the life of a man; also, it may be said, there is no life of a man, fait…
  8. There is endless merit in a man's knowing when to have done.

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