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No person is important enough to make me angry.
Thomas Carlyle
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Thomas Carlyle
Age: 85 †
Born: 1795
Born: December 4
Died: 1881
Died: February 5
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Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than gracefully insists on its own rights.
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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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As there is no danger of our becoming, any of us, Mahometans (i.e. Muslim), I mean to say all the good of him I justly can.
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A vein of poetry exists in the hearts of all men.
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All evil is like a nightmare the instant you stir under it, the evil is gone.
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A man protesting against error is on the way towards uniting himself with all men that believe in truth.
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Perfect ignorance is quiet, perfect knowledge is quiet not so the transition from the former to the latter.
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Nothing ever happens but once in all this world. What I do now I do once for all. It is over and gone, with all its eternity of solemn meaning.
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The world is an old woman, and mistakes any gilt farthing for a gold coin whereby being often cheated, she will thenceforth trust nothing but the common copper.
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Intellect is the soul of man, the only immortal part of him.
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Thought is the parent of the deed.
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All human souls, never so bedarkened, love light light once kindled spreads till all is luminous.
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Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.
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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 ought to inquire and find out what he really and truly has an appetite for what suits his constitution and that, doctors tell him, is the very thing he ought to have in general. And so with books.
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The hell of these days is the fear of not getting along, especially of not making money.
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Once turn to practice, error and truth will no longer consort together.
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