The great law of culture is: Let each become all that he was created capable of being.

Thomas Carlyle

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Reaching one's potential

Author

Thomas Carlyle

Language

English

Time

1827 1820s 19th century

Occupation

Philosopher Writer

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United Kingdom Europe

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Original Citation

Carlyle, Thomas. "Jean Paul Friedrich Richter." The Edinburgh Review, June 1827.

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Carlyle, Thomas. "Jean Paul Friedrich Richter." The Works of Thomas Carlyle, edited by Henry Duff Traill. Vol. 26, Cambridge University Press, 2010.

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Not a "gay science," I should say, like some we have heard of; no, a dreary, desolate, and, indeed, quite abject and distressing one: what we might call, by way of eminence, the dismal science.

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Carlyle, Thomas [published anonymously]. "Occasional Discourse on the Negro Question." Fraser's Magazine, Dec. 1849.

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A great chess-player is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it. No act terminating in itself constitutes greatness.

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William Hazlitt
Language
English
Time
1821 1820s 19th century
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Hazlitt, William. "The Indian Jugglers." Table-Talk; Or, Original Essays. Vol. 1, London: John Warren, 1821.

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