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• 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....
• 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....
• Literature is the Thought of thinking Souls.
  -- Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) -- Sir Walter Scott, London and Westminster Review, 1838...
• 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....
• The eye of the intellect "sees in all objects what it brought with it the means of seeing.
• 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....
• The Poet Whose Badness Saved His Life The most important poet in the seventeenth century was George Wither.
  Alexander Pope called him "wretched Wither" and Dryden said of his verse that "if they rhymed and rattled all was well"....
• One monster there is in the world, the idle man. -- Thomas Carlyle