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Every noble work is at first impossible.
Thomas Carlyle
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Thomas Carlyle
Age: 85 †
Born: 1795
Born: December 4
Died: 1881
Died: February 5
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It is in general more profitable to reckon up our defeats than to boast of our attainments.
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Money, in truth, can do much, but it cannot do all. We must know the province of it, and confine it there, and even spurn it back when it wishes to get farther.
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The stifled hum of midnight, when traffic has lain down to rest, and the chariot wheels of Vanity, still rolling here and there through distant streets, are bearing her to halls roofed in and lighted to the due pitch for her and only vice and misery, to prowl or to moan like night birds, are abroad.
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Science has done much for us but it is a poor science that would hide from us the great deep sacred infinitude of Nescience, on which all science swims as a mere superficial film.
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Reform, like charity, must begin at home.
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The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against disbelief
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Nothing that was worthy in the past departs no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.
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Macaulay is well for awhile, but one wouldn't live under Niagara.
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Acorns are planted silently by some unnoticed breeze.
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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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A mind that has seen, and suffered, and done, speaks to us of what it has tried and conquered.
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Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong.
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Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.
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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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Of all your troubles, great and small, the greatest are the ones that don't happen at all.
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How great a Possibility, how small a realized Result.
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I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.
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Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May but at length the season of summer does come.
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What I loved in the man was his health, his unity with himself all people and all things seemed to find their quite peaceable adjustment with him, not a proud domineering one, as after doubtful contest, but a spontaneous-looking peaceable, even humble one.
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