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A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
Thomas Carlyle
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Thomas Carlyle
Age: 85 †
Born: 1795
Born: December 4
Died: 1881
Died: February 5
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A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.
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Statistics, one may hope, will improve gradually, and become good for something. Meanwhile, it is to be feared the crabbed satirist was partly right, as things go: A judicious man, says he, looks at Statistics, not to get knowledge, but to save himself from having ignorance foisted on him.
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Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist.
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There is often more spiritual force in a proverb than in whole philosophical systems.
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There is a majesty and mystery in nature, take her as you will. The essence of poetry comes breathing to a mind that feels from every province of her empire.
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The hell of these days is the fear of not getting along, especially of not making money.
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History is the distillation of rumour.
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All history . . . is an inarticulate Bible.
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Battles, in these ages, are transacted by mechanism with the slightest possible development of human individuality or spontaneity men now even die, and kill one another, in an artificial manner.
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To the mean eye all things are trivial, as certainly as to the jaundiced they are yellow.
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'Genius' which means transcendent capacity of taking trouble, first of all.
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We have not the love of greatness, but the love of the love of greatness.
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The crash of the whole solar and stellar systems could only kill you once.
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Rich as we are in biography, a well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one and there are certainly many more men whose history deserves to be recorded than persons willing and able to record it.
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Speech that leads not to action, still more that hinders it, is a nuisance on the earth.
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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 public is anold woman.Let her maunderand mumble.
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The leafy blossoming present time springs from the whole past, remembered and unrememberable.
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Macaulay is well for awhile, but one wouldn't live under Niagara.
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It is meritorious to insist on forms religion and all else naturally clothes itself in forms. Everywhere the formed world is the only habitable one.
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