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Biographies Quotes by Thomas Carlyle
- No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
- Biography is the only true history.
- Rich as we are in biography, a well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one; and there are certainly many more men whose…
- Biography is the most universally pleasant and profitable of all reading.
- If those gentlemen would let me alone I should be much obliged to them. I would say, as Shakespeare would say... Sweet Friend, for Jesus…
- No sooner does a great man depart, and leave his character as public property, than a crowd of little men rushes towards it. There they…
- History is the essence of innumerable biographies.
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