France was long a despotism tempered by epigrams.
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We have our little theory on all human and divine things. Poetry, the workings of genius itself, which, in all times, with one or another meaning, has been called Inspiration, and held to be mysterious and inscrutable, is no longer without its scientific exposition. The building of the lofty rhyme is like any other masonry or bricklaying we have theories of its rise, height, decline and fall -- which latter, it would seem, is now near, among all people.Thomas Carlyle
One life - a little gleam of time between two eternities.
Thomas Carlyle
A man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind.
Thomas Carlyle
The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.
Thomas Carlyle
The sincere alone can recognize sincerity.
Thomas Carlyle
Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
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