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When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.
Thomas Carlyle
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Thomas Carlyle
Age: 85 †
Born: 1795
Born: December 4
Died: 1881
Died: February 5
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Philosopher of Chelsea
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Of our thinking it is but the upper surface that we shape into articulate thought underneath the region of argument and conscious discourse lies the region of meditation.
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The mystery of a person, indeed, is ever divine to him that has a sense for the godlike.
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A background of wrath, which can be stirred up to the murderous infernal pitch, does lie in every man.
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Neither had Watt of the Steam engine a heroic origin, any kindred with the princes of this world. The princes of this world were shooting their partridges... While this man with blackened fingers, with grim brow, was searching out, in his workshop, the Fire-secret.
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Nine-tenths of the miseries and vices of mankind proceed from idleness.
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Science has done much for us but it is a poor science that would hide from us the great deep sacred infinitude of Nescience, on which all science swims as a mere superficial film.
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The insignificant, the empty, is usually the loud and after the manner of a drum, is louder even because of its emptiness.
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No good book, or good thing of any sort, shows its best face at first.
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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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The goal of yesterday will be our starting-point to-morrow.
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Violence does even justice unjustly.
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The greatest mistake is to imagine that we never err.
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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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Out of the lowest depths there is a path to the loftiest heights.
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Also, what mountains of dead ashes, wreck and burnt bones, does assiduous pedantry dig up from the past time and name it History.
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If a book comes from the heart, it will contrive to reach other hearts all art and author-craft are of small amount to that.
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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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No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, could ever compel the soul of man to believe or to disbelieve: it is his own indefeasible light, that judgment of his he will reign and believe there by the grace of God alone!
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