History is the essence of innumerable biographies.
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Woe to him that claims obedience when it is not due; woe to him that refuses it when it is.Thomas Carlyle
As one highway engineer put it, We were going by the book, but the damned mountain couldn't read. ... Every noble work is at first impossible.
Thomas Carlyle
Show me the man you honor, and I will show you the kind of a man you are, for it shows me what your ideal of manhood is, and what kind of a man you long to be.
Thomas Carlyle
This Mirabeau's work, then, is done. He sleeps with the primeval giants. He has gone over to the majority Abiit ad plures.
Thomas Carlyle
Do the duty which lieth nearest to thee Thy second duty will already have become clearer.
Thomas Carlyle
What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
Thomas Carlyle
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