Thomas Carlyle's Quote - History shows that the majority of people that have done anything

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History shows that the majority of people that have done anything

History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion. – Thomas Carlyle

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Reality, if rightly interpreted, is grander than fiction. – Thomas Carlyle

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All deep things are song. It seems somehow the very central essence of us, song; as if all the rest were but wrappages and hulls! – Thomas Carlyle

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Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries. – Thomas Carlyle

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The greatest wealth is to live content with little. – Plato

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Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed. – William James

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Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves nor their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others. – Plato

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