“A man can believe, and make his own, in the most genuine way, what he has received from another;–and with boundless gratitude to the other. The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man; whatsoever he believes, he believes it for himself, not for another.”
Thomas Carlyle, “The Hero as Priest”
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