Quote by Thomas Carlyle
History, a distillation of rumour. - Thomas Carlyle

History, a distillation of rumour. – Thomas Carlyle

Other quotes by Thomas Carlyle

Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world. – Thomas Carlyle

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Honesty
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Our life is not really a mutual helpfulness; but rather, its fair competition cloaked under due laws of war; its a mutual hostility. – Thomas Carlyle

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Competition
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Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope this world of his is emphatically the place of hope. – Thomas Carlyle

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The judicial system is the most expensive machine ever invented for finding out what happened and what to do about it. – Irving R. Kaufman

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[History is] a tyranny over the souls of the dead – and so the imagination of the living. – William Carlos Williams

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To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasnt everything. – Albert Camus

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The history of astronomy is a history of receding horizons. – Edwin Powell Hubble

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