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“The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.”

Thomas Carlyle · Courage

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Thomas Carlyle

Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it.

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Thomas Carlyle

In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom we have to say, Like People like Government.

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Thomas Carlyle

I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.

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Thomas Carlyle

All great peoples are conservative.

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