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LAW & HISTORY > essayist, historian > Thomas Carlyle
They raise their...
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They raise their minds by brooding over and embellishing their sufferings, from one degree of fervid exaltation and dreary greatness to another, till at length they run amuck entirely, and whoever meets them would do well to run them thro' the body.
Source: Letter, 28 Jan. 1821 (published in Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle, vol. 1, 1970 --81), referring specifically to the Romantics.
-- 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.