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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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The scandalous bronze-lacquer age of hungry animalisms, spiritual impotences, and mendacities, will have to run its course, till the pit follow it.
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The merit of originality is not novelty it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man whatsoever he believes, he believes it for himself, not for another.
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Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.
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There is precious instruction to be got by finding we were wrong.
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A heavenly awe overshadowed and encompassed, as it still ought, and must, all earthly business whatsoever.
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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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Conclusive facts are inseparable from inconclusive except by a head that already understands and knows.
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Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.
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Thought will not work except in silence.
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There is but one temple in this Universe: The Body. We speak to God whenever we lay our hands upon it.
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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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That a Parliament, especially a Parliament with Newspaper Reporters firmly established in it, is an entity which by its very nature cannot do work, but can do talk only.
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When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.
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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.
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The first duty of man is to conquer fear he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.
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It is in general more profitable to reckon up our defeats than to boast of our attainments.
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He that has a secret should not only hide it, but hide that he has it to hide.
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Enjoying things which are pleasant that is not the evil it is the reducing of our moral self to slavery by them that is.
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Also, what mountains of dead ashes, wreck and burnt bones, does assiduous pedantry dig up from the past time and name it History.
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Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.
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