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Quotation from Essay on Burns by Thomas Carlyle
“To the ill-starred Burns was given the power of making man's life more venerable, but that of wisely guiding his own life was not given”
Essay on Burns, p. 11 (Riverside ed. (Noyes, 1896))
The essay's governing antithesis between Burns's gift to others and his failure to govern himself.
Citation: "To the ill-starred Burns was given the power of making man's life more venerable, but that of wisely guiding his own life was not given" — Thomas Carlyle, Essay on Burns, p. 11 (Riverside ed. (Noyes, 1896)). (id essay-on-burns-q4)
