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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
Essayist
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Philosopher of Chelsea
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The merit of originality is not novelty it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man whatsoever he believes, he believes it for himself, not for another.
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Cherish what is dearest while you have it near you, and wait not till it is far away. Blind and deaf that we are oh, think, if thou yet love anybody living, wait not till death sweep down the paltry little dust clouds and dissonances of the moment, and all be made at last so mournfully clear and beautiful, when it is too late.
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A man cannot make a pair of shoes rightly unless he do it in a devout manner.
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Out of Eternity the new day is born Into Eternity at night will return.
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A fair day's wage for a fair day's work: it is as just a demand as governed men ever made of governing. It is the everlasting right of man.
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The Ideal is in thyself, the impediments too is in thyself.
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All great peoples are conservative.
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Affectation is the product of falsehood.
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Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.
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If Hero means sincere man, why may not every one of us be a Hero?
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Nature, after all, is still the grand agent in making poets.
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To the wisest man, wide as is his vision. Nature remains of quite infinite depth, of quite infinite expansion and all experience thereof limits itself to some few computed centuries and measured square miles.
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Thought, true labor of any kind, highest virtue itself, is it not the daughter of Pain?
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Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope this world of his is emphatically the place of hope.
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Worship is transcendent wonder.
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The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self activity.
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No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, could ever compel the soul of man to believe or to disbelieve: it is his own indefeasible light, that judgment of his he will reign and believe there by the grace of God alone!
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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.
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Scarcely two hundred years back can Fame recollect articulately at all and there she but maunders and mumbles.
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Infinite is the help man can yield to man.
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