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Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It's a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment.
Thomas Carlyle
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Thomas Carlyle
Age: 85 †
Born: 1795
Born: December 4
Died: 1881
Died: February 5
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Philosopher of Chelsea
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If a book comes from the heart, it will contrive to reach other hearts all art and author-craft are of small amount to that.
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When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent.
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Let me have my own way in exactly everything and a sunnier and pleasanter creature does not exist.
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Cease to brag to me of America, and its model institutions and constitutions. America, too, will have to strain its energies, crack its sinews, and all but break its heart, as the rest of us have had to do, in thousand-fold wrestle with the Pythons, and mud-demons, before it can become a babitation for the gods.
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Also, what mountains of dead ashes, wreck and burnt bones, does assiduous pedantry dig up from the past time and name it History.
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What unknown seas of feeling lie in man, and will from time to time break through!
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Men are grown mechanical in head and in the heart, as well as in the hand. They have lost faith in individual endeavour, and in natural force of any kind.
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A witty statesman said, you might prove anything by figures.
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Love not Pleasure love God.
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The Christian must be consumed by the conviction of the infinite beauty of holiness and the infinite damnability of sin.
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It is not a lucky word, this name impossible no good comes of those who have it so often in their mouths.
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There is but one temple in this Universe: The Body. We speak to God whenever we lay our hands upon it.
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Let a man try faithfully, manfully to be right he will grow daily more and more right. It is at bottom the condition on which all men have to cultivate themselves.
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Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity speech is shallow as Time.
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Every man has a coward and hero in his soul.
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Hardened round us, encasing wholly every notion we form is a wrapping of traditions, hearsay's, and mere words.
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