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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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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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Goethe's devil is a cultivated personage and acquainted with the modern sciences sneers at witchcraft and the black art even while employing them, and doubts most things, nay, half disbelieves even his own existence.
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Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.
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The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious.
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Piety does not mean that a man should make a sour face about things, and refuse to enjoy in moderation what his Maker has given.
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What unknown seas of feeling lie in man, and will from time to time break through!
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We have not read an author till we have seen his object, whatever it may be, as he saw it.
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Heroes, it would seem, exist always and a certain worship of them.
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Thirty millions, mostly fools.
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If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated readings deserves to be read at all.
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The dead are all holy, even they that were base and wicked while alive. Their baseness and wickedness was not they, was but the heavy and unmanageable environment that lay round them.
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The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self activity.
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Good Christian people, here lies for you an inestimable loan take all heed thereof, in all carefulness, employ it: with high recompense, or else with heavy penalty, will it one day be required back.
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What a wretched thing is all fame! A renown of the highest sort endures, say, for two thousand years. And then? Why, then, a fathomless eternity swallows it. Work for eternity not the meagre rhetorical eternity of the periodical critics, but for the real eternity wherein dwelleth the Divine.
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We do everything by custom, even believe by it our very axioms, let us boast of free-thinking as we may, are oftenest simply such beliefs as we have never heard questioned.
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To the vulgar eye, few things are wonderful that are not distant
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I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
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Speech that leads not to action, still more that hinders it, is a nuisance on the earth.
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Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being.
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The times are very bad. Very well, you are there to make them better.
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