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Thomas Carlyle1795–1881

Man’s unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite.

Thomas Carlyle on happiness

Sartor Resartus (1833–1834), Bk. II, ch. 9

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