More From Thomas Carlyle
- "Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation."
- "History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion."
- "Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together."
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