To the very last, he [Napoleon] had a kind of idea; that, namely,
of la carriere ouverte aux talents,--the tools to him that can handle
them.
-- Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)
-- Sir Walter Scott, London and Westminster Review, 1838
of la carriere ouverte aux talents,--the tools to him that can handle
them.
-- Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)
-- Sir Walter Scott, London and Westminster Review, 1838
Related:
- Literature is the Thought of thinking Souls.
-- Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)
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Sir Walter Scott, London and Westminster Review,... - 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... - Blessed is the healthy nature; it is the coherent, sweetly co-operative,
not incoherent, self-distracting, self-destructive... - The uttered part of a man's life, let us always repeat,
bears to the unuttered, unconscious part a small unknown... - There is no heroic poem in the world but is at bottom a biography,
the life of a man; also it may be said, there is no... - The eye of the intellect "sees in all objects what it brought with
it the means of seeing."
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Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) -- Varnhagen Von Ense's... - 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... - Scott: "I'm not here for a tour, laddie. I'm here to help!" LaForge:
"That's very kind, but I'm sure we can handle it."... - If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him.
They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had...
From the same category:
- Thank God! I--I also--am an American!
-- Daniel Webster (1782-1852)
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Completion of Bunker Hill Monument, June 17, 1843,... - While I live,
I'll try my damndest to avoid taxes... - Legalize
vandalism!... - The sooner and in more detail you announce the bad news,
the better... - Jove weighs affairs of earth in dubious scales,
And the good suffers while the bad prevails.
Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Odyssey of Homer...
