Reality, if rightly interpreted, is grander than fiction.
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Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the architect of circumstance. It is character which builds an existence out of circumstance.
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Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.
Thomas Carlyle
The world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was.
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He has no resolution, he shrinks from pain or labour in any of its shapes. His very attitude bespeaks this he never straightens his knee joints, he stoops with his fat ill-shapen shoulders, and in walking he does not tread but shovel and slide.
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No sooner does a great man depart, and leave his character as public property, than a crowd of little men rushes towards it. There they are gathered together, blinking up to it with such vision as they have, scanning it from afar. . .
Thomas Carlyle
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