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Be not a slave of words.
Thomas Carlyle
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Thomas Carlyle
Age: 85 †
Born: 1795
Born: December 4
Died: 1881
Died: February 5
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Every man is my superior in that I may learn from him.
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Every noble crown is, and on Earth will forever be, a crown of thorns.
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Language is called the garment of thought: however, it should rather be, language is the flesh-garment, the body, of thought.
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If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated readings deserves to be read at all.
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Clean undeniable right, clear undeniable might: either of these once ascertained puts an end to battle. All battle is a confused experiment to ascertain one and both of these.
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The thing is not only to avoid error, but to attain immense masses of truth.
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Providence has given to the French the empire of the land, to the English that of the sea, to the Germans that of--the air!
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A Fourth Estate, of Able Editors, springs up.
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Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with.
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The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against disbelief
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History is philosophy teaching by experience.
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Genuine Work alone, what thou workest faithfully, that is eternal, as the Almighty Founder and World-Builder himself.
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The mystical bond of brotherhood makes all men brothers.
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The crash of the whole solar and stellar systems could only kill you once.
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Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being.
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Have not I myself known five hundred living soldiers sabred into crows' meat for a piece of glazed cotton, which they call their flag which had you sold it at any market-cross, would not have brought above three groschen?
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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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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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Force, force, everywhere force we ourselves a mysterious force in the centre of that. There is not a leaf rotting on the highway but has Force in it: how else could it rot? [As used in his time, by the word force, Carlyle means energy.]
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The archenemy is the arch stupid!
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