Maxioms by Thomas Carlyle
Happy the People whose Annals are blank in History-Books.
Happy the People whose Annals are blank in History-Books.
I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man read more
Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the architect of circumstance. It is character which builds an existence out of circumstance. From the same materials one man builds palaces, another hovels; one warehouses, another villas; bricks and mortar are mortar and bricks until the architect can make them something else.
no man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.
no man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.
The Present is the living sum-total of the whole Past.
The Present is the living sum-total of the whole Past.
