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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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The graceful minuet-dance of fancy must give place to the toilsome, thorny pilgrimage of understanding. On the transition from the age of romance to that of science.
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Heroes have gone out quacks have come in the reign of quacks has not ended with the nineteenth century. The sceptre is held with a firmer grasp the empire has a wider boundary. We are all the slaves of quackery in one shape or another. Indeed, one portion of our being is always playing the successful quack to the other.
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Dishonesty is the raw material not of quacks only, but also in great part dupes.
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Naps are a way of traveling painlessly through time into the future.
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Nature, after all, is still the grand agent in making poets.
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The insignificant, the empty, is usually the loud and after the manner of a drum, is louder even because of its emptiness.
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Love not Pleasure love God.
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Unity, agreement, is always silent or soft-voiced it is only discord that loudly proclaims itself.
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Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the architect of circumstance.
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All true work is sacred. In all true work, were it but true hand work, there is something of divineness. Labor, wide as the earth, has its summit in Heaven.
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Burke said there were Three Estates in Parliament but, in the Reporter's gallery yonder, there sat a fourth estate more important far than they all.
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The first duty of man is to conquer fear he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.
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How great a Possibility, how small a realized Result.
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No violent extreme endures.
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No nobler feeling than this, of admiration for one higher than himself, dwells in the breast of man. It is to this hour, and at all hours, the vivifying influence in man's life.
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We have not the love of greatness, but the love of the love of greatness.
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Terror itself, when once grown transcendental, becomes a kind of courage as frost sufficiently intense, according to the poet Milton, will burn.
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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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Oblivion is the dark page, whereon Memory writes her light-beam characters, and makes them legible were it all light, nothing could be read there, any more than if it were all darkness.
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Pain was not given thee merely to be miserable under learn from it, turn it to account.
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