There needs not a great soul to make a hero; there needs a god-created soul which will be true to its origin; that will be a great soul! - Thomas Carlyle

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There needs not a great soul to make a hero; there needs a god-created soul which will be true to its origin; that will be a great soul!

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About Thomas Carlyle

Thomas Carlyle (December 4 1795 – February 5 1881) was a Scottish essayist, historian and philosopher of great prominence during the Victorian era. His wife was Jane Welsh Carlyle.

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Alternative Names: The Sage of Chelsea

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In the meanest mortal there lies something nobler. The poor swearing soldier, hired to be shot, has his "honor of a soldier," different from drill-regulations and the shilling a day. It is not to taste sweet things, but to do noble and true things, and vindicate himself under God's Heaven as a god-made Man, that the poorest son of Adam dimly longs. Show him the way of doing that, the dullest day-drudge kindles into a hero. They wrong man greatly who say he is to be seduced by ease.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offense.

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