More from Thomas Carlyle

  1. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
  2. We have chosen Mahomet not as the most eminent Prophet; but as the one we are freest to speak of. He is by no means the truest of Prophets;…
  3. No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.
  4. The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.
  5. The difference between Orthodoxy or Mydoxy and Heterodoxy or Thy-doxy.
  6. 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…
  7. The All of Things is an infinite conjugation of the verb To do.
  8. I care little about the sword: I will allow a thing to struggle for itself in this world, with any sword or tongue or implement it has, or …

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