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Thomas Carlyle. (1795–1881) (continued)

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The true University of these days is a Collection of Books.

Heroes and Hero-Worship. The Hero as a Man of Letters.

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One life,—a little gleam of time between two Eternities.

Heroes and Hero-Worship. The Hero as a Man of Letters.

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Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity there are a hundred that will stand adversity.

Heroes and Hero-Worship. The Hero as a Man of Letters.

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The Press is the Fourth Estate of the realm.

Heroes and Hero-Worship. The Hero as a Man of Letters.

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The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none. 1

The Hero as a Prophet.

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My whinstone house my castle is;
I have my own four walls.

My own four Walls.

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The unspeakable Turk.

In public letter, 1877.

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Lord Bacon could as easily have created the planets as he could have written Hamlet.

Remark in discussion.

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Can there be a more horrible object in existence than an eloquent man not speaking the truth?

Address as Lord Rector of Edinburgh University, 1866.

Hartley Coleridge. (1796–1849)

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    The soul of man is larger than the sky,
  Deeper than ocean, or the abysmal dark
  Of the unfathomed center.

To Shakespeare.

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On this hapless earth
There ’s small sincerity of mirth,
And laughter oft is but an art
To drown the outcry of the heart.

Address to certain Gold-fishes.