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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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No violent extreme endures.
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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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The Persians are called the French of the East we will call the Arabs Oriental Italians. A gifted noble people a people of wildstrong feelings, and of iron restraint over these: the characteristic of noblemindedness, of genius.
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A greater number of God's creatures believe in Mahomet's word at this hour than in any other word whatever. Are we to suppose that it was a miserable piece of spiritual legerdemain, this which so many creatures of the almighty have lived by and died by?
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Thought will not work except in silence.
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Not on morality, but on cookery, let us build our stronghold: there brandishing our frying-pan, as censer, let us offer sweet incense to the Devil, and live at ease on the fat things he has provided for his elect!
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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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The cut of a garment speaks of intellect and talent and the color of temperament and heart.
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Do nothing, only keep agitating, debating and things will destroy themselves.
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Trust not the heart of that man for whom old clothes are not venerable.
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Affectation is the product of falsehood.
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Doubt of any kind cannot be resolved except by action.
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The fine arts once divorcing themselves from truth are quite certain to fall mad, if they do not die.
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There must be a new world if there is to be any world at all!... These days of universal death must be days of universal new birth, if the ruin is not to be total and final! It is Time to make the dullest man consider and ask himself, Whence he came? Whither he is bound?
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Life is a series of lessons that have to be understood.
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A sad spectacle. If they be inhabited, what a scope for misery and folly. If they be not inhabited, what a waste of space.
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A good book is the purest essence of a human soul.
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Macaulay is well for awhile, but one wouldn't live under Niagara.
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A false man found a religion? Why, a false man cannot build a brick house!
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He who cannot withal keep his mind to himself cannot practice any considerable thing whatsoever.
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