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Quote by Thomas Carlyle
If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid

If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation? – Thomas Carlyle

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The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully. – Thomas Carlyle

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In the true Literary Man there is thus ever, acknowledged or not by the world, a sacredness: he is the light of the world; the worlds Priest; — guiding it, like a sacred Pillar of Fire, in its dark pilgrimage through the waste of Time. – Thomas Carlyle

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