Great men are the commissioned guides of mankind, who rule their fellows because they are wiser.
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Self-contemplation is infallibly the symptom of disease.Thomas Carlyle
All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.
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The heart always sees before than the head can see.
Thomas Carlyle
The deepest depth of vulgarism is that of setting up money as the ark of the covenant.
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Conclusive facts are inseparable from inconclusive except by a head that already understands and knows.
Thomas Carlyle
Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.
Thomas Carlyle
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