John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
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| Thomas Carlyle. (1795–1881) (continued) |
| 6000 |
| A Parliament speaking through reporters to Buncombe and the twenty-seven millions, mostly fools. |
| Latter Day Pamphlet, No. 6. (1850.) |
| 6001 |
| The fine arts once divorcing themselves from truth are quite certain to fall mad, if they do not die. |
| Latter Day Pamphlet, No. 8. (1850.) |
| 6002 |
| Genius … means the transcendent capacity of taking trouble. 1 |
| Life of Frederick the Great. Book iv. Chap. iii. |
| 6003 |
| Happy the people whose annals are blank in history-books. 2 |
| Life of Frederick the Great. Book xvi. Chap. i. |
| 6004 |
| He who first shortened the labor of Copyists by device of Movable Types was disbanding hired Armies and cashiering most Kings and Senates and creating a whole new Democratic world: he had invented the Art of printing. |
| Sartor Resartus. Book i. Chap. v. |
| 6005 |
| What you see, yet can not see over, is as good as infinite. |
| Sartor Resartus. Book ii. Chap. i. |
| 6006 |
| Alas the fearful Unbelief is unbelief in yourself. |
| Sartor Resartus. Book ii. Chap. vii. |
| 6007 |
| As the Swiss inscription says: Sprechen ist silbern, Schweigen ist golden,—“Speech is silvern, Silence is golden;” or, as I might rather express it, Speech is of Time, Silence is of Eternity. |
| Sartor Resartus. Book iii. Chap. iii. |
| 6008 |
| In books lies the soul of the whole Past Time: the articulate audible voice of the Past, when the body and material substance of it has altogether vanished like a dream. |
| Heroes and Hero-Worship. The Hero as a Man of Letters. |
| Note 1. Buffon says:—“La génie n’est autre chose qu’une grande aptitude à la patience. (Genius is nothing else than a great aptitude for patience).” There is also a popular proverb: “Genius is patience.” See also Disraeli, p. 627: “Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius.” See Leslie Stephen: “Genius is a capacity for taking trouble.” Jan Walæus also says: “Genius is an intuitive talent for labor.” [back] |
| Note 2. Montesquieu: Aphorism. [back] |