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• What is aristocracy? A corporation of the best, of the bravest. -- Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)
• Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man. -- Thomas Carlyle
• A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats other men. -- Thomas Carlyle
• Clever men are good, but they are not the best.
  -- Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) -- Goethe, Edinburgh Review, 1828...
• Literary men are... a perpetual priesthood.
  -- Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) -- State of German Literature, Edinburgh Review, 1827...
• Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can.
  -- Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish historia...
• 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...
• Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebels against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.
  -- Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)...
• One monster there is in the world, the idle man. -- Thomas Carlyle