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Quotation from On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle
“The man's misery, as man's misery always does, came of his greatness”
On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History, Lecture VI (The Hero as King) (Project Gutenberg #1091)
Carlyle reads Cromwell's youthful hypochondria and nervous dreams as the sign of a deep nature, not of falsehood.
Citation: "The man's misery, as man's misery always does, came of his greatness" — Thomas Carlyle, On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History, Lecture VI (The Hero as King) (Project Gutenberg #1091). (id on-heroes-hero-worship-q12)
