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• The eye of the intellect "sees in all objects what it brought with it the means of seeing.
• Literature is the Thought of thinking Souls.
  -- Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) -- Sir Walter Scott, London and Westminster Review, 1838...
• As the Swiss inscription says: Sprechen ist silbern, Schweigen ist golden,--"Speech is silvern, Silence is golde
  or, as I might rather express it, Speech is of Time, Silence is of Eternity....
• 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....
• 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....
• 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....
• Love is ever the beginning of knoweledge as fire is of light.
  -- Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish historian -- Goeth, Foreign Review, No. 111 (1828)...