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John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.

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Thomas Carlyle. (1795–1881) (continued)
 
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      A Parliament speaking through reporters to Buncombe and the twenty-seven millions, mostly fools.
          Latter Day Pamphlet, No. 6. (1850.)
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      The fine arts once divorcing themselves from truth are quite certain to fall mad, if they do not die.
          Latter Day Pamphlet, No. 8. (1850.)
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      Genius … means the transcendent capacity of taking trouble. 1 
          Life of Frederick the Great. Book iv. Chap. iii.
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      Happy the people whose annals are blank in history-books. 2 
          Life of Frederick the Great. Book xvi. Chap. i.
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      He who first shortened the labor of Copyists by device of Movable Types was disbanding hired Armies and cashiering most Kings and Senates and creating a whole new Democratic world: he had invented the Art of printing.
          Sartor Resartus. Book i. Chap. v.
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      What you see, yet can not see over, is as good as infinite.
          Sartor Resartus. Book ii. Chap. i.
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      Alas the fearful Unbelief is unbelief in yourself.
          Sartor Resartus. Book ii. Chap. vii.
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      As the Swiss inscription says: Sprechen ist silbern, Schweigen ist golden,—“Speech is silvern, Silence is golden;” or, as I might rather express it, Speech is of Time, Silence is of Eternity.
          Sartor Resartus. Book iii. Chap. iii.
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      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 has altogether vanished like a dream.
          Heroes and Hero-Worship. The Hero as a Man of Letters.
 
Note 1.
Buffon says:—“La génie n’est autre chose qu’une grande aptitude à la patience. (Genius is nothing else than a great aptitude for patience).” There is also a popular proverb: “Genius is patience.” See also Disraeli, p. 627: “Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius.” See Leslie Stephen: “Genius is a capacity for taking trouble.” Jan Walæus also says: “Genius is an intuitive talent for labor.” [back]
Note 2.
Montesquieu: Aphorism. [back]