There is but one thing without honor, smitten with eternal barrenness,…

Thomas Carlyle
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There is but one thing without honor, smitten with eternal barrenness, inability to do or to be,-insincerity, unbelief. ✨ Thomas Carlyle (1884). Miscellaneous essays
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