| Histories are a kind of distilled newspapers. |
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- Thomas Carlyle |
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| History is a great dust heap. |
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- Thomas Carlyle |
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| History is a mighty dramos, enacted upon the theatre of times, with suns for lamps and eternity for a background. |
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- Thomas Carlyle |
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| In a certain sense all men are historians. |
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- Thomas Carlyle |
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| It is part of my creed that the only poetry is history, could we tell it right. |
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- Thomas Carlyle |
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| The happiest hours of mankind are recorded on the blank pages of history. |
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- Thomas Carlyle |
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| The Present is the living sum-total of the whole Past. |
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- Thomas Carlyle |
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| What mountains of dead ashes, wreck and burnt bones, does assiduous pedantry dig up from the past time and name it History. |
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- Thomas Carlyle |
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| No man sees far; the most see no farther than their noses. |
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- Thomas Carlyle |
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| All deep things are song. It seems somehow the very central essence of us, song; as if all the rest were but wrappages and hulls! |
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- Thomas Carlyle |
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| Have not I myself known five hundred living soldiers sabred into crows' meat for a piece of glazed cotton, which they call their flag; which had you sold it at any market-cross, would not have brought above three groschen? |
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- Thomas Carlyle |
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| Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time. |
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- Thomas Carlyle |
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| 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 altogether vanished like a dream. |
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- Thomas Carlyle |
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| The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green. |
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- Thomas Carlyle |
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| The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong. |
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- Thomas Carlyle |
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| Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world. |
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- Thomas Carlyle |
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| We have profoundly forgotten everywhere that Cash-payment is not the sole relation of human beings. |
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- Thomas Carlyle |
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| Every human being has a right to hear what other wise human beings have spoken to him. It is one of the Rights of Men; a very cruel injustice if you deny it to a man! |
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- Thomas Carlyle |
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| The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss. |
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- Thomas Carlyle |
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| The first purpose of clothes... was not warmth or decency, but ornament.... Among wild people, we find tattooing and painting even prior to clothes. The first spiritual want of a barbarous man is decoration; as indeed we still see among the barbarous classes in civilized countries. |
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- Thomas Carlyle |
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