Carlyle

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    Writing is a dreadful Labour, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.
    —Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881)

    What I loved in the man was his health, his unity with himself; all people and all things seemed to find their quite peaceable adjustment with him, not a proud domineering one, as after doubtful contest, but a spontaneous-looking peaceable, even humble one.
    —Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881)

    Man’s unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite.
    —Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881)