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Disbelief in great men is a sign of a person's own littleness
Drawn from what Thomas Carlyle said
What Thomas Carlyle actually said
- Thomas Carlyle Scottish essayist and historian (1795 to 1881)
No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men. There is no sadder symptom of a generation than such general blindness to the spiritual lightning, with faith only in the heap of barren dead fuel.
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↗On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History (1840-1841)gutenberg.org
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