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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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In the huge mass of evil as it rolls and swells, there is ever some good working toward deliverance and triumph.
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The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against disbelief
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The stifled hum of midnight, when traffic has lain down to rest, and the chariot wheels of Vanity, still rolling here and there through distant streets, are bearing her to halls roofed in and lighted to the due pitch for her and only vice and misery, to prowl or to moan like night birds, are abroad.
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The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self activity.
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We have not the love of greatness, but the love of the love of greatness.
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Unity, agreement, is always silent or soft-voiced it is only discord that loudly proclaims itself.
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What unknown seas of feeling lie in man, and will from time to time break through!
Thomas Carlyle
A battle is a terrible conjugation of the verb to kill: I kill, thou killest, he kills, we kill, they kill, all kill.
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Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May but at length the season of summer does come.
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Money, in truth, can do much, but it cannot do all. We must know the province of it, and confine it there, and even spurn it back when it wishes to get farther.
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A man must indeed be a hero to appear such in the eyes of his valet.
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Reform is not pleasant, but grievous no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation.
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All evil is like a nightmare the instant you stir under it, the evil is gone.
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The great soul of this world is just.
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Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity speech is shallow as Time.
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Rare benevolence, the minister of God.
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Insurrection, never so necessary, is a most sad necessity and governors who wait for that to instruct them are surely getting into the fatalest course.
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Wise man was he who counselled that speculation should have free course, and look fearlessly towards all the thirty-two points of the compass, whithersoever and howsoever it listed.
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Shakespeare says, we are creatures that look before and after the more surprising that we do not look around a little, and see what is passing under our very eyes.
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Earnestness alone makes life eternity.
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