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• Blessed is the healthy nature; it is the coherent, sweetly co-operative, not incoherent, self-distracting, self-destructive one!
  -- Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) -- Sir Walter Scott, London and Westminster Review, 1838...
• To the very last, he [Napoleon] had a kind of idea
  hat, namely, of la carriere ouverte aux talents,--the tools to him that can handle them....
• There is no heroic poem in the world but is at bottom a biography, the life of a ma
  also it may be said, there is no life of a man, faithfully recorded, but is a heroic poem of its sort, rhymed or unrhymed....
• The uttered part of a man's life, let us always repeat, bears to the unuttered, unconscious part a small unknown proportion.
  He himself never knows it, much less do others....
• It can be said of him, when he departed he took a Man's life with him.
  No sounder piece of British manhood was put together in that eighteenth century of Time....
• The eye of the intellect "sees in all objects what it brought with it the means of seeing.
• Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better.
  Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as time....
• Literary men are... a perpetual priesthood.
  -- Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) -- State of German Literature, Edinburgh Review, 1827...
• When we first practice to deceive. -- Sir Walter Sco