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• I grow daily to honor facts more and more, and theory less and less.
  A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing - a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil....
• Endurance is patience concentrated. -- Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist, historia
• Society is founded on hero worship.
• Love is ever the beginning of knoweledge as fire is of light.
  -- Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish historian -- Goeth, Foreign Review, No. 111 (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...
• I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
  -- Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist, historia...
• Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with.
  -- Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist, historia...
• Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
  -- Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist, historia...