I don't pretend to understand the Universe - it's a great deal bigger …

Thomas Carlyle
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I don't pretend to understand the Universe - it's a great deal bigger than I am.
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Freedom is the one purport, wisely aimed at, or unwisely, of all man's struggles, toilings and sufferings, in this earth. ✨ Thomas Carlyle (1872). The French Revolution: a History, p.160
No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men. ✨ On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic The Hero as Divinity (1841)
Let him who would move and convince others, be first moved and convinced himself. ✨ Essay on Burns.
The suffering man ought really to consume his own smoke; there is no good in emitting smoke till you have made it into fire. ✨ Thomas Carlyle (1898). The Works of Thomas Carlyle, p.184
A man's religion consists, not of the many things he is in doubt of and tries to believe, but of the few he is assured of and has no need of effort for believing. ✨ Thomas Carlyle (1872). Works, p.266

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