More from Thomas Carlyle

  1. To the Arab Nation it was as a birth from darkness into light; Arabia first became alive by means of it. A poor shepherd people, roaming un…
  2. In books lies the soul of the whole Past Time; the articulate audible voice of the Past, when the body and material substance of it has alt…
  3. On the whole, we will repeat that this Religion of Mahomet's is a kind of Christianity; has a genuine element of what is spiritually highes…
  4. A man lives by believing something; not by debating and arguing about many things.
  5. We will not praise Mahomet's moral precepts as always of the superfinest sort; yet it can be said that there is always a tendency to good i…
  6. All that mankind has done, thought, gained or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.
  7. Enjoying things which are pleasant; that is not the evil: it is the reducing of our moral self to slavery by them that is.
  8. What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of…

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