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• Literature is the Thought of thinking Souls.
  -- Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) -- Sir Walter Scott, London and Westminster Review, 1838...
• 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....
• 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....
• 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...
• 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....
• None of our men are "experts." We have most unfortunately found it necessary to get rid of a man as soon as he thinks himself an expert -- because no one ever considers himself expert if he really knows his job.
  A man who knows a job sees so much more to be done than he has done, that he is always pressing forward and never gives up an instant of thought to how good and how efficient he is....
• None of our men are "experts." We have most unfortunately found it necessary to get rid of a man as soon as he thinks himself an expert -- because no one ever considers himself expert if he really knows his job.
  A man who knows a job sees so much more to be done than he has done, that he is always pressing forward and never gives up an instant of thought to how good and how efficient he is....