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Quote by Thomas Carlyle
There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of

There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write. – Thomas Carlyle

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The illimitable, silent, never-resting thing called Time, rolling, rushing on, swift, silent, like an all-embracing ocean-tide, on which we and all the universe swim like exhalations, like apparitions which are, and then are not…. – Thomas Carlyle

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Mans unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite. – Thomas Carlyle

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No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men. – Thomas Carlyle

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In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves… self-discipline with all of them came first. – Harry S. Truman

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