Macaulay is well for awhile but one wouldn't live under Niagara.

Thomas Carlyle
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  2. He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything

  3. Every poet... finds himself born in the midst of prose. He has to struggle from the littleness and obstruction of an actual world into the freedom and infinitude of an ideal.

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  5. The lies (Western slander) which well-meaning zeal has heaped round this man (Muhammad) are disgraceful to ourselves only.

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