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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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Obedience is our universal duty and destiny wherein whoso will not bend must break too early and too thoroughly we cannot be trained to know that would, in this world of ours, is a mere zero to should, and for most part as the smallest of fractions even to shall.
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Scarcely two hundred years back can Fame recollect articulately at all and there she but maunders and mumbles.
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Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
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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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True friends, like ivy and the wall Both stand together, and together fall.
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Out of the lowest depths there is a path to the loftiest heights.
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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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We have not the love of greatness, but the love of the love of greatness.
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Time is the silent, never-resting thing ... rolling, rushing on, swift, silent, like an all-embracing oceantide, on which we and all the universe swim.
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Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, altogether past calculation its powers of endurance.
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Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.
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Government is emphatically a machine: to the discontented a taxing machine, to the contented a machine for securing property.
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The aristocracy of feudal parchment has passed away with a mighty rushing, and now, by a natural course, we arrive at aristocracy of the money-bag.
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