In this world there is one godlike thing, the essence of all that was …

Thomas Carlyle
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In this world there is one godlike thing, the essence of all that was or ever will be of godlike in this world: the veneration done to Human Worth by the hearts of men. ✨ The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle.
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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist. ✨ Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (2010). The Works of Thomas Carlyle, p.9, Cambridge University Press
He who could foresee affairs three days in advance would be rich for thousands of years.
Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope; this world of his is emphatically the place of hope. ✨ Thomas Carlyle, Rodger L. Tarr, Mark Engel (2000). Sartor Resar … ▶
Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness on the confines of two everlasting empires, - Necessity and Free Will. ✨ Essays on Goethe (Goethe's Works). … ▶
The mystical bond of brotherhood makes all men brothers.

In this world there is one godlike thing, the essence of all that was or ever will be of godlike in this world: the veneration done to Human Worth by the hearts of men. ✨ The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle.

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