“ A man who cannot hold his peace, till the time come for speaking and acting, is no right man. ”
Thomas Carlyle, On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and The Heroic in History (1841). copy citation
Author | Thomas Carlyle |
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Source | On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and The Heroic in History |
Topic | peace time |
Date | 1841 |
Language | English |
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Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1091/1091-h/1091-h.htm |
Context
“though six men cannot hold him then. He that can walk under the heaviest weight without staggering, he is the strong man. We need forever, especially in these loud-shrieking days, to remind ourselves of that. A man who cannot hold his peace, till the time come for speaking and acting, is no right man.
Poor Rousseau's face is to me expressive of him. A high but narrow contracted intensity in it: bony brows; deep, strait-set eyes, in which there is something bewildered-looking,—bewildered, peering with lynx-eagerness.”
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