“Europe has made much; great cities, great empires, encyclopaedias, creeds, bodies of opinion and practice: but it has made little of the class of Dante's Thought.”

— Thomas Carlyle

1840s, Heroes and Hero-Worship (1840), The Hero as Poet

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Scottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist, historian… 1795–1881

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