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No violent extreme endures.
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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The first duty of man is to conquer fear he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.
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Science has done much for us but it is a poor science that would hide from us the great deep sacred infinitude of Nescience, on which all science swims as a mere superficial film.
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Know what thou canst work at, and work at it like a Hercules.
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Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct.
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The world is a thing that a man must learn to despise, and even to neglect, before he can learn to reverence it, and work in it and for it.
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What I loved in the man was his health, his unity with himself all people and all things seemed to find their quite peaceable adjustment with him, not a proud domineering one, as after doubtful contest, but a spontaneous-looking peaceable, even humble one.
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Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May but at length the season of summer does come.
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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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May blessings be upon the head of Cadmus, the Phoenicians, or whoever it was that invented books.
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The great silent man! Looking round on the noisy inanity of the world,--words with little meaning, actions with little worth,--one loves to reflect on the great Empire of Silence.
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He that works and does some Poem, not he that merely says one, is worthy of the name of Poet.
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A Fourth Estate, of Able Editors, springs up.
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