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No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.
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 tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.
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If there be not a religious element in the relations of men, such relations are miserable and doomed to ruin.
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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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Hardened round us, encasing wholly every notion we form is a wrapping of traditions, hearsay's, and mere words.
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The greatest fault is to be conscious of none.
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Nature, after all, is still the grand agent in making poets.
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Of all your troubles, great and small, the greatest are the ones that don't happen at all.
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The whole past is the procession of the present.
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