Thomas Carlyle Quotes About Inspiration
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We have our little theory on all human and divine things. Poetry, the workings of genius itself, which, in all times, with one or another meaning, has been called Inspiration, and held to be mysterious and inscrutable, is no longer without its scientific exposition. The building of the lofty rhyme is like any other masonry or bricklaying: we have theories of its rise, height, decline and fall -- which latter, it would seem, is now near, among all people.
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He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.
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What the light of your mind, which is the direct inspiration of the Almighty, pronounces incredible, that, in God's name, leave uncredited. At your peril do not try believing that!
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Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can.
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When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.
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The greatest security against sin is to be shocked at its presence.
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No pressure, no diamonds.
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A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men.
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Music... a kind of inarticulate, unfathomable speech, which leads to the edge of the Infinite.
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