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History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.
Thomas Carlyle
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Thomas Carlyle
Age: 85 †
Born: 1795
Born: December 4
Died: 1881
Died: February 5
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Youth is to all the glad season of life but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.
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The outer passes away the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
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History is a great dust heap.
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Clean undeniable right, clear undeniable might: either of these once ascertained puts an end to battle. All battle is a confused experiment to ascertain one and both of these.
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