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Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist.
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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Laws themselves, political Constitutions, are not our Life but only the house wherein our Life is led.
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The cut of a garment speaks of intellect and talent and the color of temperament and heart.
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And yet without labour there were no ease, no rest, so much as conceivable.
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Misery which, through long ages, had no spokesman, no helper, will now be its own helper and speak for itself.
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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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With union grounded on falsehood and ordering us to speak and act lies, we will not have anything to do. Peace? A brutal lethargy is peaceable the noisome is peaceable. We hope for a living peace, not a dead one!
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O Time! Time! how it brings forth and devours! And the roaring flood of existence rushes on forever similar, forever changing!
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A false man found a religion? Why, a false man cannot build a brick house!
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Also, what mountains of dead ashes, wreck and burnt bones, does assiduous pedantry dig up from the past time and name it History.
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Freedom is the one purport, wisely aimed at, or unwisely, of all man's struggles, toilings and sufferings, in this earth.
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Every noble work is at first impossible.
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Democracy is, by the nature of it, a self-canceling business: and gives in the long run a net result of zero.
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In this world there is one godlike thing, the essence of all that was or ever will be of godlike in this world: the veneration done to Human Worth by the hearts of men.
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Woe to him, . . . who has no court of appeal against the world's judgment.
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The best lesson which we get from the tragedy of Karbala is that Husain and his companions were rigid believers in God. They illustrated that the numerical superiority does not count when it comes to the truth and the falsehood. The victory of Husain, despite his minority, marvels me!
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Worship of a hero is transcendent admiration of a great man.
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