Quote #55

France was long a despotism tempered by epigrams.

More from Thomas Carlyle

  1. That there should one Man die ignorant who had capacity for Knowledge, this I call a tragedy.
  2. No lie you can speak or act but it will come, after longer or shorter circulation, like a Bill drawn on Nature's Reality, and be presented …
  3. The highest ensign that men ever met and embraced under, the Cross itself, had no meaning save an accidental extrinsic one.
  4. To a shower of gold most things are penetrable.
  5. For is not a Symbol ever, to him who has eyes for it, some dimmer or clearer revelation of the God-like?
  6. 'The people may eat grass': hasty words, which fly abroad irrevocable-and will send back tidings.
  7. As the Swiss inscription says: Sprechen ist silbern, Schweigen ist golden- 'Speech is silvern, Silence is golden'; or, as I might rather ex…
  8. A whiff of grapeshot.

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