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Today I feature Thomas Carlyle- 1795-1881. A fine poet and prose writer who was a domineering and thoughtless husband. He and his wife, Jane, had a most tempestuous relationship which has been well documented. Samuel Butler had this to say about them; It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another, and so make only two people miserable and not four . Nevertheless, he must have had some semblance of enlightened tranquility to draw on as evidenced below.
"What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.”
“Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you’ll be able to see further.”
“A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.”
"Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure that there is one less scoundrel in the world.”
“The tragedy of life is not so much what
men suffer, but rather what they miss.”
“Of all your troubles, great and small, the greatest are the ones that don’t happen at all.”
“A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men.”
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- - - - - - -“Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you’ll be able to see further.”
“A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.”
"Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure that there is one less scoundrel in the world.”
“The tragedy of life is not so much what
men suffer, but rather what they miss.”
“Of all your troubles, great and small, the greatest are the ones that don’t happen at all.”
“A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men.”