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• The man who has not anything to boast of but his illustrious ancestors is like a potato - the only good belonging to him is underground.
  -- Sir Thomas Overbury...
• Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man. -- Thomas Carlyle
• One monster there is in the world, the idle man. -- Thomas Carlyle
• We are firm believers in the maxim that for all right judgment of any man or thing it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.
  -- Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) -- Goethe, Edinburgh Review, 1828...
• 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....
• In books lies the soul of the whole Past Time: the articulate audible voice of the Past, when the body and material substance of it has altogether vanished like a dream.
  -- Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) -- Heroes and Hero-Worship, The Hero as a Man of Lette...
• Perpetual moderness is the measure of merit in every work of art.
  -- Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish historian -- Plato...
• Everything is flowing -- going somewhere, animals and so- called lifeless rocks as well as water.
  Thus the snow flows fast or slow in grand beauty-making glaciers and avalanche...
• Clever men are good, but they are not the best.
  -- Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) -- Goethe, Edinburgh Review, 1828...