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• A poet without love were a physical and metaphysical impossibility.
  -- Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) -- Burns, Edinburgh Review, 1828...
• Endurance is patience concentrated. -- Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist, historia
• Clever men are good, but they are not the best.
  -- Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) -- Goethe, Edinburgh Review, 1828...
• His religion at best is an anxious wish,--like that of Rabelais, a great Perhaps.
  -- Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) -- Burns, Edinburgh Review, 1828...
• Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can.
  -- Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish historia...
• Perpetual moderness is the measure of merit in every work of art.
  -- Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish historian -- Plato...
• The world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was.
  -- Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish historian -- Letter to R. W. Emmerson (May 13, 1853)...
• Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with.
  -- Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist, historia...
• I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
  -- Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist, historia...