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Famous Quotes in History by Thomas Carlyle - 1


This category is for famous quotes in history by Thomas Carlyle.

Thomas Carlyle was a Scottish essayist, historian, and biographer. He was born on December 4th, 1795 and died on February 5th, 1881.

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Endurance


Endurance is patience concentrated.


Experience


Experience is the best of schoolmasters, only the school fees are heavy.


Faults


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


Hate


I do not hate him nearly as much as I fear I ought to.


History


History is the biography of great men.


Honest


Make yourself an honest man and then you may be sure there is one rascal less in the world.


Ignorance


I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.


Ignorance


That there should one man die ignorant who had capacity for knowledge, this I call a tragedy.


Life


A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.


Literature


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

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