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No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
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 archenemy is the arch stupid!
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A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.
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Of all the paths a man could strike into, there is, at any given moment, a best path .. A thing which, here and now, it were of all things wisest for him to do .. To find this path, and walk in it, is the one thing needful for him.
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Let me have my own way in exactly everything and a sunnier and pleasanter creature does not exist.
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No man lives without jostling and being jostled in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.
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