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Past Quotes by Thomas Carlyle
- Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.
- The Present is the living sum-total of the whole Past.
- The whole past is the procession of the present.
- Also, what mountains of dead ashes, wreck and burnt bones, does assiduous pedantry dig up from the past time and name it History.
- The past is always attractive because it is drained of fear.
- In books lies the soul fo the whole past time.
- 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…
- The past is all holy to us; the dead are all holy; even they that were wicked when alive.
- The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or…
- In books lies the soul of the whole past time.
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