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Worship is transcendent wonder.

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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Government is emphatically a machine: to the discontented a taxing machine, to the contented a machine for securing property.
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All history . . . is an inarticulate Bible.
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He who cannot withal keep his mind to himself cannot practice any considerable thing whatsoever.
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Considering the multitude of mortals that handle the pen in these days, and can mostly spell, and write without glaring violations of grammar, the question naturally arises: How is it, then, that no work proceeds from them, bearing any stamp of authenticity and permanence of worth for more than one day?
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