No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.Thomas Carlyle
“Every noble work is at first impossible.”
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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