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Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.
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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If there be no enemy there's no fight. If no fight, no victory and if no victory there is no crown.
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Perfect ignorance is quiet, perfect knowledge is quiet not so the transition from the former to the latter.
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No person is important enough to make me angry.
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A word spoken in season, at the right moment is the mother of ages.
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How indestructibly the good grows, and propagates itself, even among the weedy entanglements of evil.
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Nothing that was worthy in the past departs no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.
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Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.
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Do nothing, only keep agitating, debating and things will destroy themselves.
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Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May but at length the season of summer does come.
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What unknown seas of feeling lie in man, and will from time to time break through!
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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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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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If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.
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What a wretched thing is all fame! A renown of the highest sort endures, say, for two thousand years. And then? Why, then, a fathomless eternity swallows it. Work for eternity not the meagre rhetorical eternity of the periodical critics, but for the real eternity wherein dwelleth the Divine.
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Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.
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All human things do require to have an ideal in them to have some soul in them.
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