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Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being.
Thomas Carlyle
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Thomas Carlyle
Age: 85 †
Born: 1795
Born: December 4
Died: 1881
Died: February 5
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Roguery is thought by some to be cunning and laughable: it is neither it is devilish.
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The cut of a garment speaks of intellect and talent and the color of temperament and heart.
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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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Ill-health, of body or of mind, is defeat. Health alone is victory. Let all men, if they can manage it, contrive to be healthy!
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Doubt of any kind cannot be resolved except by action.
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Love not Pleasure love God.
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Obedience is our universal duty and destiny wherein whoso will not bend must break too early and too thoroughly we cannot be trained to know that would, in this world of ours, is a mere zero to should, and for most part as the smallest of fractions even to shall.
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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.
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Blessed is he who has found his work let him ask no other blessedness.
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The most unhappy of all men is the man who cannot tell what he is going to do, who has got no work cut-out for him in the world, and does not go into it. For work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind,honest work, which you intend getting done.
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Dishonesty is the raw material not of quacks only, but also in great part dupes.
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Laws themselves, political Constitutions, are not our Life but only the house wherein our Life is led.
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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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A Fourth Estate, of Able Editors, springs up.
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The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.
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