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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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Superstition! that horrid incubus which dwelt in darkness, shunning the light, with all its racks, and poison chalices, and foul sleeping draughts, is passing away without return. Religion cannot pass away. The burning of a little straw may hide the stars of the sky but the stars are there and will reappear.
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Misery which, through long ages, had no spokesman, no helper, will now be its own helper and speak for itself.
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Just in ratio as knowledge increases, faith diminishes.
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What is nature? Art thou not the living government of God? O Heaven, is it in very deed He then that ever speaks through thee, that lives and loves in thee, that lives and loves in me?
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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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Professors of the Dismal Science, I perceive the length of your tether is now pretty well run and I must request you to talk a little lower in the future.
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