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Hadst thou not Greek enough to understand thus much: The end of man is an Action, and not a Thought, though it were the noblest.
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Bk. II, ch. 5
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The words Carlyle put in italics are a quotation from Book 1 of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics.

 

Thomas Carlyle

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