Do not be embarrassed by your mistakes. Nothing can teach us better than our understanding of them. This is one of the best ways of self-education.Thomas Carlyle
“Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the architect of circumstance.”
“Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the architect of circumstance.”
— THOMAS CARLYLE
Scottish historian and essayist · 1795 – 1881
Thomas Carlyle was a Scottish historian, philosopher and essayist whose works, including Sartor Resartus and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History, shaped Victorian thought. His history of the French Revolution is regarded as a classic of the genre.
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