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Quote by Thomas Carlyle
History is the distillation of rumor. - Thomas Carlyle

History is the distillation of rumor. – Thomas Carlyle

Other quotes by Thomas Carlyle

I grow daily to honor facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing — a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil. – Thomas Carlyle

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Facts
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Thomas Carlyle
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The beginning of all wisdom is to look fixedly on clothes, or even with armed eyesight, till they become transparent. – Thomas Carlyle

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Hmmm
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History begins in novel and ends in essay. – Thomas Babington Macaulay

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History

A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect. – Walter Scott

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History

I came, I saw, I conquered. – Julius Caesar

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History

Every true history must force us to remember that the past was once as real as the present and as uncertain as the future. – George Macaulay Trevelyan, Clio, A Muse

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Education is the transmission of civilization. – Ariel and Will Durant

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Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears. – Les Brown

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We cannot command Nature except by obeying her. – Francis Bacon

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You left, and my heart is a ceaseless sermon of loneliness. – Terri Guillemets

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