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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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In books lies the soul of the whole Past Time the articulate audible voice of the Past, when the body and material substance of it has altogether vanished like a dream.
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Enjoying things which are pleasant that is not the evil it is the reducing of our moral self to slavery by them that is.
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