Thomas Carlyle Quotes on Culture

4 quotes

  1. The great law of culture is: Let each become all that he was created capable of being.

  2. Literary men are...a perpetual priesthood.

  3. Whoso belongs only to his own age, and reverences only its gilt Popinjays or smoot-smeared Mumbojumbos, must needs die with it.

  4. The English are a dumb people. They can do great acts, but not describe them.

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