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What an enormous magnifier is tradition! How a thing grows in the human memory and in the human imagination, when love, worship, and all that lies in the human heart, is there to encourage it

What an enormous magnifier is tradition! How a thing grows in the human memory and in the human imagination, when love, worship, and all that lies in the human heart, is there to encourage it

Thomas Carlyle
Memories, Lying, Heart
Thomas Carlyle (1841). “On Heroes, Hero-Worship,&the Heroic in History. Six Lectures. Reported with emendations and additions”, p.41

Oblivion is the dark page, whereon Memory writes her light-beam characters, and makes them legible; were it all light, nothing could be read there, any more than if it were all darkness.

Thomas Carlyle
Memories, Writing, Character
Thomas Carlyle, Chris Vanden Bossche (2002). “Historical Essays”, p.20, Univ of California Press

Without oblivion, there is no remembrance possible. When both oblivion and memory are wise, when the general soul of man is clear, melodious, true, there may come a modern Iliad as memorial of the Past.

Thomas Carlyle
Wise, Memories, Past
Oliver Cromwell, Thomas Carlyle (1857). “Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches: With Elucidations”, p.6

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