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Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
Thomas Carlyle
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Thomas Carlyle
Age: 85 †
Born: 1795
Born: December 4
Died: 1881
Died: February 5
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A heavenly awe overshadowed and encompassed, as it still ought, and must, all earthly business whatsoever.
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Universal history, the history of what man has accomplished in this world, is at bottom the History of the Great Men who have worked here.
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It is no very good symptom, either of nations or individuals, that they deal much in vaticination. Happy men are full of the present, for its bounty suffices them and wise men also, for its duties engage them. Our grand business undoubtedly is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what clearly lies at hand.
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And yet without labour there were no ease, no rest, so much as conceivable.
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In a certain sense all men are historians.
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The purpose of man is in action not thought.
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The sincere alone can recognize sincerity.
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Eternity looks grander and kinder if time grow meaner and more hostile.
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Midas-eared Mammonism, double-barrelled Dilettantism, and their thousand adjuncts and corollaries, are not the Law by which God Almighty has appointed this His universe to go.
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In a different time, in a different place, it is always some other side of our common human nature that has been developing itself. The actual truth is the sum of all these.
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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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Thirty millions, mostly fools.
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The fine arts once divorcing themselves from truth are quite certain to fall mad, if they do not die.
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I have seen gleams in the face and eyes of the man that have let you look into a higher country.
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He that can work is born to be king of something.
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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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Ill-health, of body or of mind, is defeat. Health alone is victory. Let all men, if they can manage it, contrive to be healthy!
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I want to meet my God awake.
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The Ideal is in thyself, the impediments too is in thyself.
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May blessings be upon the head of Cadmus, the Phoenicians, or whoever it was that invented books.
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