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  -- Nietsche...
• Heroism- the divine relation which in all times unites a great men to other men. -- Carlyle
• His religion at best is an anxious wish,--like that of Rabelais, a great Perhaps.
  -- Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) -- Burns, Edinburgh Review, 1828...
• It is through symbols that man consciously or unconsciously lives, works and has his being.
  -- Thomas Carlyle...
• One monster there is in the world, the idle man. -- Thomas Carlyle
• How does the poet speak to men with power, but by being still more a man than they?
  -- Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) -- Burns, Edinburgh Review, 1828...
• Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves. -- Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)
• Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves. -- Thomas Carlyle
• There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talent.
  -- Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)...