More from Thomas Carlyle

  1. 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 q…
  2. Wonder is the basis of worship.
  3. Be not the slave of Words.
  4. What you see, yet can not see over, is as good as infinite.
  5. Man is a tool-using animal...Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.
  6. Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the Devil; for which reason I have, long since, as good as renounced it.
  7. He who first shortened the labor of copyists by device of movable types was disbanding hired armies, and cashiering most kings and senates,…
  8. With stupidity and sound digestion man may front much.

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