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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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The best lesson which we get from the tragedy of Karbala is that Husain and his companions were rigid believers in God. They illustrated that the numerical superiority does not count when it comes to the truth and the falsehood. The victory of Husain, despite his minority, marvels me!
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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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Terror itself, when once grown transcendental, becomes a kind of courage as frost sufficiently intense, according to the poet Milton, will burn.
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When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent.
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The graceful minuet-dance of fancy must give place to the toilsome, thorny pilgrimage of understanding. On the transition from the age of romance to that of science.
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There is something in man which your science cannot satisfy.
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Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do that with all thy might and leave the issues calmly to God.
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History is the new poetry.
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Nature admits no lie.
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Of all your troubles, great and small, the greatest are the ones that don't happen at all.
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Our works are the mirror wherein the spirit first sees its natural lineaments. Hence, too, the folly of that impossible precept, Know theyself till it be translated into this partially possible one, know what thou canst work at.
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The beginning of all wisdom is to look fixedly on clothes, or even with armed eyesight, till they become transparent.
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What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
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No man lives without jostling and being jostled in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.
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Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful yet ever needful and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.
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Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being.
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Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, altogether past calculation its powers of endurance.
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Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such it is an accident, not a property of man.
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Once the mind has been expanded by a big idea, it will never go back to its original state.
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A man lives by believing something.
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