John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
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| Thomas Carlyle. (1795–1881) (continued) |
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| There is no heroic poem in the world but is at bottom a biography, the life of a man; also it may be said, there is no life of a man, faithfully recorded, but is a heroic poem of its sort, rhymed or unrhymed. |
| Sir Walter Scott. London and Westminster Review, 1838. |
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| Silence is deep as Eternity, speech is shallow as Time. |
| Sir Walter Scott. London and Westminster Review, 1838. |
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| To the very last, he [Napoleon] had a kind of idea; that, namely, of la carrière ouverte aux talents,—the tools to him that can handle them. 1 |
| Sir Walter Scott. London and Westminster Review, 1838. |
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| Blessed is the healthy nature; it is the coherent, sweetly co-operative, not incoherent, self-distracting, self-destructive one! |
| Sir Walter Scott. London and Westminster Review, 1838. |
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| The uttered part of a man’s life, let us always repeat, bears to the unuttered, unconscious part a small unknown proportion. He himself never knows it, much less do others. |
| Sir Walter Scott. London and Westminster Review, 1838. |
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| Literature is the Thought of thinking Souls. |
| Sir Walter Scott. London and Westminster Review, 1838. |
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| It can be said of him, when he departed he took a Man’s life with him. No sounder piece of British manhood was put together in that eighteenth century of Time. |
| Sir Walter Scott. London and Westminster Review, 1838. |
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| The eye of the intellect “sees in all objects what it brought with it the means of seeing.” |
| Varnhagen von Ense’s Memoirs. Ibid. |
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| Love is ever the beginning of Knowledge as fire is of light. |
| Essays. Death of Goethe. |
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| Music is well said to be the speech of angels. |
| Essays. The Opera. |
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| A mystic bond of brotherhood makes all men one. |
| Essays. Goethe’s Works. |
| Note 1. Carlyle in his essay on Mirabeau, 1837, quotes this from a “New England book.” [back] |