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LAW & HISTORY > essayist, historian > Thomas Carlyle
The illimitable, silent,...
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The illimitable, silent, never-resting thing called Time, rolling, rushing on, swift, silent, like an all-embracing ocean-tide, on which we and all the universe swim like exhalations. . .
Source: On Heroes and Hero-Worship, lecture 1, The Hero as Divinity, 1841.
-- Thomas Carlyle, (Dec 4 1795-1881), Scottish essayist, historian; He was considered one of the era's great sages and man of letters; wrote The French Revolution, 1837.