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Quote by Thomas Carlyle
In the true Literary Man there is thus ever, acknowledged or not b

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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There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune. – Thomas Carlyle

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History is a mighty dramos, enacted upon the theatre of times, with suns for lamps and eternity for a background. – Thomas Carlyle

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If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else. – Thomas Carlyle

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The people have a right supreme
To make their kings, for Kings are made for them.
All Empire is no more than Powr in Trust,
Which when resumd, can be no longer just.
Successionm for the general good designd,
In its own wrong a Nation cannot bind. – John Dryden

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Literary

If the radiance of a thousand suns
Were to burst at once into the sky
That would be like the splendor of the Mighty one —
I am become Death,
The shatterer of Worlds. – Hindu Spiritual

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Literary

Over the river and through the wood,
To grandfathers house we go;
The horse knows the way
To carry the sleigh,
Through the white and drifted snow. – Lydia Maria Child

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Literary

Avarice, envy, pride,
Three fatal sparks, have set the hearts of all
On Fire. – Dante Alighieri

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prohibition makes you want to cry into your beer and denies you the beer to cry into – Don Marquis

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IN April 1882 my father died and I was at once whirled out of my land of dreams into a very different sphere. – Edward Carpenter

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