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Quotes by Thomas Carlyle
- I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
- I don't pretend to understand the Universe - it's a great deal bigger than I am.
- I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.
- I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
- If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?
- If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.
- If you look deep enough you will see music the heart of nature being everywhere music.
- Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.
- In books lies the soul of the whole past time.
- In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom we have to say, Like People like Government.
- It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.
- It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.
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