Quote #66
The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
More from Thomas Carlyle
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- We must get rid of fear.
- The difference between Orthodoxy or Mydoxy and Heterodoxy or Thy-doxy.
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- The All of Things is an infinite conjugation of the verb To do.
- The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.
- History a distillation of rumor.
- Much has been said of Mahomet's propagating his Religion by the sword. It is no doubt far nobler what we have to boast of the Christian Rel…