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• Endurance is patience concentrated. -- Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist, historia
• 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...
• The block of granite which is an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, becomes a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.
  -- Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist, historia...
• 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...
• The world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was.
  -- Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish historian -- Letter to R. W. Emmerson (May 13, 1853)...
• Perpetual moderness is the measure of merit in every work of art.
  -- Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish historian -- Plato...
• Democracy is, by the nature of it, a self-cancelling busine
  and gives in the long run a net result of zero....