https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Mon, 08 Jun 2026 17:02:49 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 https://wist.info/carlyle-thomas/73642/ https://wist.info/carlyle-thomas/73642/#respond Fri, 27 Dec 2024 00:58:51 +0000 Dave https://wist.info/?p=73642 As dark misery settles down on us, and our refuges of lies fall in pieces one after one, the hearts of men, now at last serious, will turn to refuges of truth. The eternal stars shine out again, so soon as it is dark enough.

Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian
Past and Present, Book 4, ch. 8 “The Didactic” (1843)
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