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Thomas Carlyle föddes den December 4th 1795 och dog den 5 February 1881 - leading figure in the Victorian era.
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 Happy the people whose annals are blank in history books

 Happy the people whose annals are blank in history books

 He that can work is born to be king of something.

 He who could foresee affairs three days in advance would be rich for thousands of years.

 Heroism is the divine relation which, in all times, unites a great man to other men.

 Histories are a kind of distilled newspapers

 History is the distillation of rumor.

 History is the essence of innumerable biographies

 History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.

 Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.

 I call the book of Job, apart from all theories about it, one of the grandest things ever written with the pen.

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

 I don't like to talk much with people who always agree with me. It is amusing to coquette with an echo for a little while, but one soon tires of it.

 I don't pretend to understand the Universe - it's a great deal bigger than I am.

 I grow daily to honor facts more and more, and theory less and less


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