Thomas Carlyle on Character
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“It is in general more profitable to reckon up our defects than to boast of our attainments.”
“It can be said of him, When he departed he took a Man's life with him. No sounder piece of British manhood was put together in that eighteenth century of Time.”
“We are firm believers in the maxim that, for all right judgment of any man or thing, it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.”