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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.
Thomas Carlyle
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Thomas Carlyle
Age: 85 †
Born: 1795
Born: December 4
Died: 1881
Died: February 5
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The situation that has not its duty, its ideal, was never yet occupied by man. Yes, here, in this poor, miserable, hampered, despicable actual, wherein thou even now standest, here or nowhere is thy ideal work it out therefrom, and, working, believe, live, be free. Fool! the ideal is in thyself.
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The crash of the whole solar and stellar systems could only kill you once.
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An everlasting lodestar, that beams the brighter in the heavens the darker here on earth grows the night.
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Wealth of a man is the number of things which he loves and blesses which he is loved and blessed by.
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Democracy is, by the nature of it, a self-canceling business: and gives in the long run a net result of zero.
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Necessity dispenseth with decorum.
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All human things do require to have an ideal in them to have some soul in them.
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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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