Familiar Quotations / A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to / Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature

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Sartor Resartus. Book iii. Chap. iii.

The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.[579:3]

Heroes and Hero-Worship. The Hero as a Prophet.

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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.

The true University of these days is a Collection of Books.

Heroes and Hero-Worship. The Hero as a Man of Letters.

One life,—a little gleam of time between two Eternities.

Heroes and Hero-Worship. The Hero as a Man of Letters.