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If you look deep enough you will see music the heart of nature being everywhere music.
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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The meaning of song goes deep. Who in logical words can explain the effect music has on us? A kind of inarticulate, unfathomable speech, which leads us to the edge of the infinite, and lets us for a moment gaze into that!
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In every object there is inexhaustible meaning the eye sees in it what the eye brings means of seeing.
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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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One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO.
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Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere.
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The archenemy is the arch stupid!
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A judicious man looks at Statistics, not to get knowledge, but to save himself from having ignorance foisted 'on him.
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