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Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like 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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All human souls, never so bedarkened, love light light once kindled spreads till all is luminous.
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When we can drain the Ocean into mill-ponds, and bottle up the Force of Gravity, to be sold by retail, in gas jars then may we hope to comprehend the infinitudes of man's soul under formulas of Profit and Loss and rule over this too, as over a patent engine, by checks, and valves, and balances.
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No age seemed the age of romance to itself.
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Nature is the time-vesture of God that reveals Him to the wise, and hides him from the foolish.
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How great a Possibility, how small a realized Result.
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Nature admits no lie.
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In books lies the soul of the whole Past Time the articulate audible voice of the Past, when the body and material substance of it has altogether vanished like a dream.
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Whose school-hours are all the days and nights of our existence.
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A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.
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Thought, true labor of any kind, highest virtue itself, is it not the daughter of Pain?
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The eye sees what it brings the power to see.
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They wrong man greatly who say he is to be seduced by ease. Difficulty, abnegation, martyrdom, death are the allurements that act on the heart of man.
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Why did not somebody teach me the constellations, and make me at home in the starry heavens, which are always overhead, and which I don't half know to this day?
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Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope this world of his is emphatically the place of hope.
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War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle therefore they take boys from one village and another village, stick them into uniforms, equip them with guns, and let them loose like wild beasts against one other.
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Rich as we are in biography, a well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one and there are certainly many more men whose history deserves to be recorded than persons willing and able to record it.
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A very sea of thought neither calm nor clear, if you will, yet wherein the toughest pearl-diver may dive to his utmost depth, and return not only with sea-wreck but with true orients.
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All history . . . is an inarticulate Bible.
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True friends, like ivy and the wall Both stand together, and together fall.
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Music is well said to be the speech of angels in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine. It brings us near to the infinite.
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