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Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.
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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Secrecy is the element of all goodness even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
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A man protesting against error is on the way towards uniting himself with all men that believe in truth.
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The first duty of man is that of subduing fear.
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A greater number of God's creatures believe in Mahomet's word at this hour than in any other word whatever. Are we to suppose that it was a miserable piece of spiritual legerdemain, this which so many creatures of the almighty have lived by and died by?
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The soul gives unity to what it looks at with love.
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Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.
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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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Of all the paths a man could strike into, there is, at any given moment, a best path .. A thing which, here and now, it were of all things wisest for him to do .. To find this path, and walk in it, is the one thing needful for him.
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Society is founded on hero-worship.
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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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No man at bottom means injustice it is always for some obscure distorted image of a right that he contends: an obscure image diffracted, exaggerated, in the wonderfulest way by natural dimness and selfishness getting tenfold more diffracted by exasperation of contest, till at length it become all but irrecognis-able.
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Does not every true man feel that he is himself made higher by doing reverence to what is really above him?
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By nature man hates change seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.
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Democracy means despair of finding any heroes to govern you, and contented putting up with the want of them.
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I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
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