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Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.
Thomas Carlyle
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Thomas Carlyle
Age: 85 †
Born: 1795
Born: December 4
Died: 1881
Died: February 5
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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 a man like light, it can give little or nothing, but at most may show what is given.
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There is a perennial nobleness, and even sacredness, in work. Were he never so benighted, forgetful of his high calling, there is always hope in a man that actually and earnestly works: in idleness alone there is perpetual despair.
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If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated readings deserves to be read at all.
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Doubt of any kind cannot be resolved except by action.
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A star is beautiful it affords pleasure, not from what it is to do, or to give, but simply by being what it is. It befits the heavens it has congruity with the mighty space in which it dwells. It has repose no force disturbs its eternal peace. It has freedom no obstruction lies between it and infinity.
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Does not every true man feel that he is himself made higher by doing reverence to what is really above him?
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At worst, is not this an unjust world, full of nothing but beasts of prey, four-footed or two-footed?
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The Present is the living sum-total of the whole Past.
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A pygmy standing on the outward crust of this small planet, his far-reaching spirit stretches outward to the infinite, and there alone finds rest.
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True friends, like ivy and the wall Both stand together, and together fall.
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Rightly viewed no meanest object is insignificant all objects are as windows through which the philosophic eye looks into infinitude itself.
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Democracy is, by the nature of it, a self-canceling business: and gives in the long run a net result of zero.
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Secrecy is the element of all goodness even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
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There is precious instruction to be got by finding we were wrong.
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Variety is the condition of harmony.
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History is a great dust heap.
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