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What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
Thomas Carlyle
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Thomas Carlyle
Age: 85 †
Born: 1795
Born: December 4
Died: 1881
Died: February 5
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Once turn to practice, error and truth will no longer consort together.
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The civil authority, or that part of it which remained faithful to their trust and true to the ends of the covenant, did, in answer to their consciences, turn out a tyrant, in a way which the Christians in aftertimes will mention with honor, and all tyrants in the world look at with fear.
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A man--be the heavens ever praised!--is sufficient for himself.
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Unity, agreement, is always silent or soft-voiced it is only discord that loudly proclaims itself.
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The coldest word was once a glowing new metaphor.
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Are not our greatest men as good as lost? The men that walk daily among us, warming us, feeding us, walk shrouded in darkness, mere mythic men.
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Learn to be good readers, which is perhaps a more difficult thing than you imagine. Learn to be discriminative in your reading to read faithfully, and with your best attention, all kinds of things which you have a real interest in,--a real, not an imaginary,--and which you find to be really fit for what you are engaged in.
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Rightly viewed no meanest object is insignificant all objects are as windows through which the philosophic eye looks into infinitude itself.
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The great silent man! Looking round on the noisy inanity of the world,--words with little meaning, actions with little worth,--one loves to reflect on the great Empire of Silence.
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The lightning spark of thought generated in the solitary mind awakens its likeness in another mind.
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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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He that works and does some Poem, not he that merely says one, is worthy of the name of Poet.
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Might and right do differ frightfully from hour to hour, but then centuries to try it in, they are found to be identical.
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Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong.
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Rest is for the dead.
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The vulgarity of inanimate things requires time to get accustomed to but living, breathing, bustling, plotting, planning, human vulgarity is a species of moral ipecacuanha, enough to destroy any comfort.
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Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
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Thought once awakened does not again slumber unfolds itself into a System of Thought grows, in man after man, generation after generation, - till its full stature is reached, and such System of Thought can grow no farther, but must give place to another.
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History is the new poetry.
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