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Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.
Thomas Carlyle
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Thomas Carlyle
Age: 85 †
Born: 1795
Born: December 4
Died: 1881
Died: February 5
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Cease to brag to me of America, and its model institutions and constitutions. America, too, will have to strain its energies, crack its sinews, and all but break its heart, as the rest of us have had to do, in thousand-fold wrestle with the Pythons, and mud-demons, before it can become a babitation for the gods.
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The first sin in our universe was Lucifer's self conceit.
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It is not honest inquiry that makes anarchy but it is error, insincerity, half belief and untruth that make it.
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It is part of my creed that the only poetry is history, could we tell it right.
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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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The archenemy is the arch stupid!
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We call it a Society and go about professing openly the totalest separation, isolation. Our life is not a mutual helpfulness but rather, cloaked under due laws-of-war, named fair competition and so forth, it is a mutual hostility.
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If I say that Shakespeare is the greatest of intellects, I have said all concerning him. But there is more in Shakespeare's intellect than we have yet seen. It is what I call an unconscious intellect there is more virtue in it that he himself is aware of.
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The mystery of a person, indeed, is ever divine to him that has a sense for the godlike.
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The first duty of man is that of subduing fear.
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A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.
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Let one who wants to move and convince others, first be convinced and moved themselves. If a person speaks with genuine earnestness the thoughts, the emotion and the actual condition of their own heart, others will listen because we all are knit together by the tie of sympathy.
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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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There must be a new world if there is to be any world at all!... These days of universal death must be days of universal new birth, if the ruin is not to be total and final! It is Time to make the dullest man consider and ask himself, Whence he came? Whither he is bound?
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The eye of the intellect sees in all objects what it brought with it the means of seeing.
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A man lives by believing something.
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Universal history, the history of what man has accomplished in this world, is at bottom the History of the Great Men who have worked here.
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Parliament will train you to talk and above all things to hear, with patience, unlimited quantities of foolish talk.
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Just in ratio as knowledge increases, faith diminishes.
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Violence does even justice unjustly.
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