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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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Friendship, in the old heroic sense of that term, no longer exists. It is in reality no longer expected or recognized as a virtue among men.
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Happy the People whose Annals are blank in History Books!
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Democracy will itself accomplish the salutary universal change from delusive to real, and make a new blessed world of us by and by.
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Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
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There is always hope in a man that actually and earnestly works: in Idleness alone is there perpetual despair.
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My books are friends that never fail me.
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The Present is the living sum-total of the whole Past.
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A word spoken in season, at the right moment is the mother of ages.
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Only perhaps in the United States, which alone of countries can do without governing,every man being at least able to live, and move off into the wilderness, let Congress jargon as it will,can such a form of so-called Government continue for any length of time to torment men with the semblance, when the indispensable substance is not there.
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If you look deep enough you will see music the heart of nature being everywhere music.
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An everlasting lodestar, that beams the brighter in the heavens the darker here on earth grows the night.
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If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it.
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He is wise who can instruct us and assist us in the business of virtuous living.
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Infinite is the help man can yield to man.
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No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.
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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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The great law of culture is, Let each become all that he was created capable of being expand, if possible, to his full growth resisting all impediments, casting off all foreign, especially all noxious adhesions, and show himself at length in his own shape and stature be these what they may.
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Do nothing, only keep agitating, debating and things will destroy themselves.
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Intellect is the soul of man, the only immortal part of him.
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Naps are a way of traveling painlessly through time into the future.
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