Quote by Thomas Carlyle
The world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was. - Thomas

The world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was. – Thomas Carlyle

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Stern accuracy in inquiring, bold imagination in describing, these are the cogs on which history soars or flutters and wobbles. – Thomas Carlyle

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One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me. – Harriet Beecher Stowe

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It is mediocrity which makes laws and sets mantraps and spring-guns in the realm of free song, saying thus far shalt thou go and no further. – James Russell Lowell

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Mediocrity is self-inflicted and genius is self-bestowed. – Walter Russell

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A man trying to sell a blind horse always praises its feet. – Proverb

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