John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
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Thomas Carlyle. (1795–1881) (continued) |
6009 |
The true University of these days is a Collection of Books. |
Heroes and Hero-Worship. The Hero as a Man of Letters. |
6010 |
One life,—a little gleam of time between two Eternities. |
Heroes and Hero-Worship. The Hero as a Man of Letters. |
6011 |
Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity there are a hundred that will stand adversity. |
Heroes and Hero-Worship. The Hero as a Man of Letters. |
6012 |
The Press is the Fourth Estate of the realm. |
Heroes and Hero-Worship. The Hero as a Man of Letters. |
6013 |
The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none. 1 |
The Hero as a Prophet. |
6014 |
My whinstone house my castle is; I have my own four walls. |
My own four Walls. |
6015 |
The unspeakable Turk. |
In public letter, 1877. |
6016 |
Lord Bacon could as easily have created the planets as he could have written Hamlet. |
Remark in discussion. |
6017 |
Can there be a more horrible object in existence than an eloquent man not speaking the truth? |
Address as Lord Rector of Edinburgh University, 1866. |
Hartley Coleridge. (1796–1849) |
6018 |
The soul of man is larger than the sky, Deeper than ocean, or the abysmal dark Of the unfathomed center. |
To Shakespeare. |
6019 |
On this hapless earth There ’s small sincerity of mirth, And laughter oft is but an art To drown the outcry of the heart. |
Address to certain Gold-fishes. |