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At length, after infinite effort, the two parties come into actual juxtaposition; and Thirty stands fronting Thirty, each with a gun in his hand. Straightway the word “Fire!” is given: and they blow the souls out of one another; and in place of sixty brisk useful craftsmen, the world has sixty dead carcasses, which it must bury, and anew shed tears for. Had these men any quarrel? Busy as the Devil is, not the smallest! They lived far enough apart; were the entirest strangers; nay, in so wide a Universe, there was even, unconsciously, by Commerce, some mutual helpfulness between them. How then? Simpleton! their Governors had fallen-out; and, instead of shooting one another, had the cunning to make these poor blockheads shoot.

Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian
Sartor Resartus, Book 2, ch. 8 (1834)

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WIST Quotations @[email protected] · 2026-07-16 · 18:08 UTC

At length, after infinite effort, the two parties come into actual juxtaposition; and Thirty stands fronting Thirty, each with a gun in his hand. Straightway the word “Fire!” is given: and they blow the souls out of one another; and in place of sixty brisk useful craftsmen, the world has sixty dead carcasses, which it must bury, and anew shed tears for. Had these men any quarrel? Busy as the Devil is, not the smallest! They lived far enough apart; were the entirest strangers; nay, in so wide a Universe, there was even, unconsciously, by Commerce, some mutual helpfulness between them. How then? Simpleton! their Governors had fallen-out; and, instead of shooting one another, had the cunning to make these poor blockheads shoot.

Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian
Sartor Resartus, Book 2, ch. 8 (1834)

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WIST Quotations @[email protected] · 2026-07-16 · 18:08 UTC

#Goethe #WilhelmMeister #ThomasCarlyle #vol1book2ch2

At length, after infinite effort, the two parties come into actual juxtaposition; and Thirty stands fronting Thirty, each with a gun in his hand. Straightway the word “Fire!” is given: and they blow the souls out of one another; and in place of sixty brisk useful craftsmen, the world has sixty dead carcasses, which it must bury, and anew shed tears for. Had these men any quarrel? Busy as the Devil is, not the smallest! They lived far enough apart; were the entirest strangers; nay, in so wide a Universe, there was even, unconsciously, by Commerce, some mutual helpfulness between them. How then? Simpleton! their Governors had fallen-out; and, instead of shooting one another, had the cunning to make these poor blockheads shoot.

Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian
Sartor Resartus, Book 2, ch. 8 (1834)

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the roamer @[email protected] · 2026-07-12 · 01:40 UTC

"Look at men, how they struggle after happiness and satisfaction! Their wishes, their toil, their gold, are ever hunting restlessly,--and after what? After that which the poet has received from nature,--the right enjoyment of the world, the feeling of himself in others, the harmonious conjunction of many things that will seldom exist together."

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the roamer @[email protected] · 2026-07-12 · 01:40 UTC

"Look at men, how they struggle after happiness and satisfaction! Their wishes, their toil, their gold, are ever hunting restlessly,--and after what? After that which the poet has received from nature,--the right enjoyment of the world, the feeling of himself in others, the harmonious conjunction of many things that will seldom exist together."

#Goethe #WilhelmMeister #ThomasCarlyle #vol1book2ch2

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the roamer @[email protected] · 2026-07-12 · 01:40 UTC

"Look at men, how they struggle after happiness and satisfaction! Their wishes, their toil, their gold, are ever hunting restlessly,--and after what? After that which the poet has received from nature,--the right enjoyment of the world, the feeling of himself in others, the harmonious conjunction of many things that will seldom exist together."

#Goethe #WilhelmMeister #ThomasCarlyle #vol1book2ch2

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the roamer @[email protected] · 2026-07-12 · 01:40 UTC

"Look at men, how they struggle after happiness and satisfaction! Their wishes, their toil, their gold, are ever hunting restlessly,--and after what? After that which the poet has received from nature,--the right enjoyment of the world, the feeling of himself in others, the harmonious conjunction of many things that will seldom exist together."

#Goethe #WilhelmMeister #ThomasCarlyle #vol1book2ch2

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WIST Quotations @[email protected] · 2026-07-02 · 21:31 UTC

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“Genius” (which means transcendent capacity of taking trouble, first of all).

Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian
History of Friedrich II of Prussia, called Frederick the Great, Book 4, ch. 3 (1858–1865)

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WIST Quotations @[email protected] · 2026-07-02 · 21:31 UTC

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“Genius” (which means transcendent capacity of taking trouble, first of all).

Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian
History of Friedrich II of Prussia, called Frederick the Great, Book 4, ch. 3 (1858–1865)

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WIST Quotations @[email protected] · 2026-07-02 · 21:31 UTC

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“Genius” (which means transcendent capacity of taking trouble, first of all).

Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian
History of Friedrich II of Prussia, called Frederick the Great, Book 4, ch. 3 (1858–1865)

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WIST Quotations @[email protected] · 2026-06-25 · 23:00 UTC

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So here hath been dawning
Another blue Day:
Think wilt thou let it
Slip useless away.

Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian
Poem (1837-08), “Today,” st. 1

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WIST Quotations @[email protected] · 2026-06-25 · 23:00 UTC

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So here hath been dawning
Another blue Day:
Think wilt thou let it
Slip useless away.

Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian
Poem (1837-08), “Today,” st. 1

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WIST Quotations @[email protected] · 2026-06-25 · 23:00 UTC

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So here hath been dawning
Another blue Day:
Think wilt thou let it
Slip useless away.

Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian
Poem (1837-08), “Today,” st. 1

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Wisdom in Space @[email protected] · 2026-06-25 · 03:00 UTC

One life; a little gleam between two eternities.
-- Thomas Carlyle

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Wisdom in Space @[email protected] · 2026-06-25 · 03:00 UTC

One life; a little gleam between two eternities.
-- Thomas Carlyle

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #PitcherPlants #Flowers #Florida

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Wisdom in Space @[email protected] · 2026-06-25 · 03:00 UTC

One life; a little gleam between two eternities.
-- Thomas Carlyle

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #PitcherPlants #Flowers #Florida

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Wisdom in Space @[email protected] · 2026-06-25 · 03:00 UTC

One life; a little gleam between two eternities.
-- Thomas Carlyle

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #PitcherPlants #Flowers #Florida

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WIST Quotations @[email protected] · 2026-06-11 · 20:12 UTC

Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.

Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian
Essay (1828-05), “Goethe’s Helena,” Foreign Review, Vol. 1, No. 2, Article 5

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WIST Quotations @[email protected] · 2026-06-11 · 20:12 UTC

Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.

Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian
Essay (1828-05), “Goethe’s Helena,” Foreign Review, Vol. 1, No. 2, Article 5

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WIST Quotations @[email protected] · 2026-06-11 · 20:12 UTC

Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.

Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian
Essay (1828-05), “Goethe’s Helena,” Foreign Review, Vol. 1, No. 2, Article 5

More about this quote: wist.info/carlyle-thomas/84415…

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WIST Quotations @[email protected] · 2026-06-11 · 20:12 UTC

#Goethe #WilhelmMeister #ThomasCarlyle #vol1book2ch2

Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.

Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian
Essay (1828-05), “Goethe’s Helena,” Foreign Review, Vol. 1, No. 2, Article 5

More about this quote: wist.info/carlyle-thomas/84415…

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the roamer @[email protected] · 2026-06-11 · 09:59 UTC

version 1: the letter

"If we happen, under certain circumstances, to have written and sealed and despatched a letter to a friend, which, however, does not find him, but is brought back to us, and we open it at the distance of some considerable time, a singular emotion is produced in us, on breaking up our own seal, and conversing with our altered self as with a third person."

version 2: the toot

"If we happen, under certain circumstances, to have written and sealed and despatched a [toot] to [the Fediverse], and at the distance of some considerable time it is brought back to us [by a belated boost], and we open it, a singular emotion is produced in us, on breaking up our own seal, and conversing with our altered self as with a third person."

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the roamer @[email protected] · 2026-06-11 · 09:59 UTC

version 1: the letter

"If we happen, under certain circumstances, to have written and sealed and despatched a letter to a friend, which, however, does not find him, but is brought back to us, and we open it at the distance of some considerable time, a singular emotion is produced in us, on breaking up our own seal, and conversing with our altered self as with a third person."

version 2: the toot

"If we happen, under certain circumstances, to have written and sealed and despatched a [toot] to [the Fediverse], and at the distance of some considerable time it is brought back to us [by a belated boost], and we open it, a singular emotion is produced in us, on breaking up our own seal, and conversing with our altered self as with a third person."

#Goethe #WilhelmMeister #ThomasCarlyle #vol1book2ch2

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the roamer @[email protected] · 2026-06-11 · 09:59 UTC

version 1: the letter

"If we happen, under certain circumstances, to have written and sealed and despatched a letter to a friend, which, however, does not find him, but is brought back to us, and we open it at the distance of some considerable time, a singular emotion is produced in us, on breaking up our own seal, and conversing with our altered self as with a third person."

version 2: the toot

"If we happen, under certain circumstances, to have written and sealed and despatched a [toot] to [the Fediverse], and at the distance of some considerable time it is brought back to us [by a belated boost], and we open it, a singular emotion is produced in us, on breaking up our own seal, and conversing with our altered self as with a third person."

#Goethe #WilhelmMeister #ThomasCarlyle #vol1book2ch2

#vol1book2ch2 #mastodonculture #lateboosts #thomascarlyle #wilhelmmeister #goethe

the roamer @[email protected] · 2026-06-11 · 09:59 UTC

version 1: the letter

"If we happen, under certain circumstances, to have written and sealed and despatched a letter to a friend, which, however, does not find him, but is brought back to us, and we open it at the distance of some considerable time, a singular emotion is produced in us, on breaking up our own seal, and conversing with our altered self as with a third person."

version 2: the toot

"If we happen, under certain circumstances, to have written and sealed and despatched a [toot] to [the Fediverse], and at the distance of some considerable time it is brought back to us [by a belated boost], and we open it, a singular emotion is produced in us, on breaking up our own seal, and conversing with our altered self as with a third person."

#Goethe #WilhelmMeister #ThomasCarlyle #vol1book2ch1

#goethe #wilhelmmeister #thomascarlyle #lateboosts #mastodonculture #vol1book2ch2

the roamer @[email protected] · 2026-06-10 · 21:50 UTC

"... for youth, which is so rich in undeveloped force, knows not what it squanders when, to the anguish which a loss occasions, it adds so many sorrows of its own production, as if it meant then first to give the right value to what is gone forever."

"He likewise felt so convinced that his present loss was the sole, the first, the last, he ever could experience in life, that he turned away from every consolation which aimed at showing that his sorrows might be less than endless."

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#goethe #wilhelmmeister #thomascarlyle #vol1book2ch1

the roamer @[email protected] · 2026-06-10 · 21:50 UTC

"... for youth, which is so rich in undeveloped force, knows not what it squanders when, to the anguish which a loss occasions, it adds so many sorrows of its own production, as if it meant then first to give the right value to what is gone forever."

"He likewise felt so convinced that his present loss was the sole, the first, the last, he ever could experience in life, that he turned away from every consolation which aimed at showing that his sorrows might be less than endless."

#Goethe #WilhelmMeister #ThomasCarlyle #vol1book2ch1

https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/36483/pg36483.txt

#goethe #wilhelmmeister #thomascarlyle #vol1book2ch1

the roamer @[email protected] · 2026-06-10 · 21:50 UTC

"... for youth, which is so rich in undeveloped force, knows not what it squanders when, to the anguish which a loss occasions, it adds so many sorrows of its own production, as if it meant then first to give the right value to what is gone forever."

"He likewise felt so convinced that his present loss was the sole, the first, the last, he ever could experience in life, that he turned away from every consolation which aimed at showing that his sorrows might be less than endless."

#Goethe #WilhelmMeister #ThomasCarlyle #vol1book2ch1

https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/36483/pg36483.txt

#vol1book2ch1 #thomascarlyle #wilhelmmeister #goethe

the roamer @[email protected] · 2026-06-10 · 21:50 UTC

"... for youth, which is so rich in undeveloped force, knows not what it squanders when, to the anguish which a loss occasions, it adds so many sorrows of its own production, as if it meant then first to give the right value to what is gone forever."

"He likewise felt so convinced that his present loss was the sole, the first, the last, he ever could experience in life, that he turned away from every consolation which aimed at showing that his sorrows might be less than endless."

#Goethe #WilhelmMeister #ThomasCarlyle #vol1book2ch1

https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/36483/pg36483.txt

#goethe #wilhelmmeister #thomascarlyle #vol1book2ch1

the roamer @[email protected] · 2026-06-10 · 21:46 UTC

" ... besides the unwearied attentions of his family, the love of his brothers and sisters, which first becomes truly sensible in times of distress and want, ..."

#Goethe #WilhelmMeister #ThomasCarlyle #vol1book2ch1

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#goethe #wilhelmmeister #thomascarlyle #vol1book2ch1

the roamer @[email protected] · 2026-06-10 · 21:46 UTC

" ... besides the unwearied attentions of his family, the love of his brothers and sisters, which first becomes truly sensible in times of distress and want, ..."

#Goethe #WilhelmMeister #ThomasCarlyle #vol1book2ch1

https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/36483/pg36483.txt

#goethe #wilhelmmeister #thomascarlyle #vol1book2ch1

the roamer @[email protected] · 2026-06-10 · 21:46 UTC

" ... besides the unwearied attentions of his family, the love of his brothers and sisters, which first becomes truly sensible in times of distress and want, ..."

#Goethe #WilhelmMeister #ThomasCarlyle #vol1book2ch1

https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/36483/pg36483.txt

#vol1book2ch1 #thomascarlyle #wilhelmmeister #goethe

the roamer @[email protected] · 2026-06-10 · 21:46 UTC

" ... besides the unwearied attentions of his family, the love of his brothers and sisters, which first becomes truly sensible in times of distress and want, ..."

#Goethe #WilhelmMeister #ThomasCarlyle #vol1book2ch1

https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/36483/pg36483.txt

#goethe #wilhelmmeister #thomascarlyle #vol1book2ch1

the roamer @[email protected] · 2026-06-06 · 15:52 UTC

Our Lady Joan Mastodon had invited us into the Great Hall for her #NoScrapers feast. It was a merry event. Our Lady had perhaps enjoyed her special No Scrapers Brew a little more than usual.

Roamer, she shouted across the table, your #Goethe toots are so very boring. Who reads #WilhelmMeister? And the #ThomasCarlyle translation is awful. Have you nothing better to toot?

The knights responded with a great deal of laughter and comradely banter. It was mostly cheerful, though Sir Reginald's grin was a little too rigid to be counted as friendly.

Naturally, her remark hurt me. My Lady Joan was wrong about Wilhelm Meister, and even more wrong about Carlyle.

I let it pass. I made a motion of mock apology in her direction and ignored the other knights. Our Lady Joan was fallible like the rest of us. She had given us the Federated Fields, she slayed legions of scapers every day, with her in charge we would one day overcome the Great Algo. I loved her, Goethe or not.

#noscrapers #goethe #wilhelmmeister #thomascarlyle #joanmastodon

the roamer @[email protected] · 2026-06-06 · 15:52 UTC

Our Lady Joan Mastodon had invited us into the Great Hall for her #NoScrapers feast. It was a merry event. Our Lady had perhaps enjoyed her special No Scrapers Brew a little more than usual.

Roamer, she shouted across the table, your #Goethe toots are so very boring. Who reads #WilhelmMeister? And the #ThomasCarlyle translation is awful. Have you nothing better to toot?

The knights responded with a great deal of laughter and comradely banter. It was mostly cheerful, though Sir Reginald's grin was a little too rigid to be counted as friendly.

Naturally, her remark hurt me. My Lady Joan was wrong about Wilhelm Meister, and even more wrong about Carlyle.

I let it pass. I made a motion of mock apology in her direction and ignored the other knights. Our Lady Joan was fallible like the rest of us. She had given us the Federated Fields, she slayed legions of scapers every day, with her in charge we would one day overcome the Great Algo. I loved her, Goethe or not.

#noscrapers #goethe #wilhelmmeister #thomascarlyle #joanmastodon

the roamer @[email protected] · 2026-06-06 · 15:52 UTC

Our Lady Joan Mastodon had invited us into the Great Hall for her #NoScrapers feast. It was a merry event. Our Lady had perhaps enjoyed her special No Scrapers Brew a little more than usual.

Roamer, she shouted across the table, your #Goethe toots are so very boring. Who reads #WilhelmMeister? And the #ThomasCarlyle translation is awful. Have you nothing better to toot?

The knights responded with a great deal of laughter and comradely banter. It was mostly cheerful, though Sir Reginald's grin was a little too rigid to be counted as friendly.

Naturally, her remark hurt me. My Lady Joan was wrong about Wilhelm Meister, and even more wrong about Carlyle.

I let it pass. I made a motion of mock apology in her direction and ignored the other knights. Our Lady Joan was fallible like the rest of us. She had given us the Federated Fields, she slayed legions of scapers every day, with her in charge we would one day overcome the Great Algo. I loved her, Goethe or not.

#joanmastodon #thomascarlyle #wilhelmmeister #goethe #noscrapers

the roamer @[email protected] · 2026-06-06 · 15:52 UTC

Our Lady Joan Mastodon had invited us into the Great Hall for her #NoScrapers feast. It was a merry event. Our Lady had perhaps enjoyed her special No Scrapers Brew a little more than usual.

Roamer, she shouted across the table, your #Goethe toots are so very boring. Who reads #WilhelmMeister? And the #ThomasCarlyle translation is awful. Have you nothing better to toot?

The knights responded with a great deal of laughter and comradely banter. It was mostly cheerful, though Sir Reginald's grin was a little too rigid to be counted as friendly.

Naturally, her remark hurt me. My Lady Joan was wrong about Wilhelm Meister, and even more wrong about Carlyle.

I let it pass. I made a motion of mock apology in her direction and ignored the other knights. Our Lady Joan was fallible like the rest of us. She had given us the Federated Fields, she slayed legions of scapers every day, with her in charge we would one day overcome the Great Algo. I loved her, Goethe or not.