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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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History is the distillation of rumour.
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The greatest fault is to be conscious of none.
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The English are a dumb people. They can do great acts, but not describe them.
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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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Rare benevolence, the minister of God.
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The soul gives unity to what it looks at with love.
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The crash of the whole solar and stellar systems could only kill you once.
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When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent.
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Cease to brag to me of America, and its model institutions and constitutions. America, too, will have to strain its energies, crack its sinews, and all but break its heart, as the rest of us have had to do, in thousand-fold wrestle with the Pythons, and mud-demons, before it can become a babitation for the gods.
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Only perhaps in the United States, which alone of countries can do without governing,every man being at least able to live, and move off into the wilderness, let Congress jargon as it will,can such a form of so-called Government continue for any length of time to torment men with the semblance, when the indispensable substance is not there.
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What unknown seas of feeling lie in man, and will from time to time break through!
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Piety does not mean that a man should make a sour face about things, and refuse to enjoy in moderation what his Maker has given.
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Let a man try faithfully, manfully to be right he will grow daily more and more right. It is at bottom the condition on which all men have to cultivate themselves.
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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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Rightly viewed no meanest object is insignificant all objects are as windows through which the philosophic eye looks into infinitude itself.
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A man lives by believing something.
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Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such: it is an accident, not a property, of a man like light, it can give little or nothing, but at most may show what is given.
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Youth is to all the glad season of life but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.
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No good book, or good thing of any sort, shows its best face at first.
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The Present is the living sum-total of the whole Past.
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