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All great peoples are conservative.
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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We have not read an author till we have seen his object, whatever it may be, as he saw it.
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Be a pattern to others, and then all will go well for as a whole city is affected by the licentious passions and vices of great men, so it is likewise reformed by their moderation.
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All work of man is as the swimmer's: a vast ocean threatens to devour him if he front it not bravely, it will keep its word.
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We call that fire of the black thunder-cloud electricity, and lecture learnedly about it, and grind the like of it out of glass and silk: but what is it? What made it? Whence comes it? Whither goes it?
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The great silent man! Looking round on the noisy inanity of the world,--words with little meaning, actions with little worth,--one loves to reflect on the great Empire of Silence.
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Affectation is the product of falsehood.
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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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I want to meet my God awake.
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The press is the fourth estate of the realm.
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Neither in tailoring nor in legislating does man proceed by mere accident.
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The scandalous bronze-lacquer age of hungry animalisms, spiritual impotences, and mendacities, will have to run its course, till the pit follow it.
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There is no life of a man, faithfully recorded, but is a heroic poem of its sort, rhymed or unrhymed.
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One monster there is in the world, the idle man.
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Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.
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After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books.
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The Orator persuades and carries all with him, he knows not how the Rhetorician can prove that he ought to have persuaded and carried all with him.
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Great men are the modelers, patterns, and in a wide sense creators, of whatsoever the general mass of men contrived to do and attain.
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You can make even a parrot into a learned political economist - all he must learn are the two words supply and demand.
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History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.
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Men are grown mechanical in head and in the heart, as well as in the hand. They have lost faith in individual endeavour, and in natural force of any kind.
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