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The eye sees what it brings the power to see.
Thomas Carlyle
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Thomas Carlyle
Age: 85 †
Born: 1795
Born: December 4
Died: 1881
Died: February 5
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What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
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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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Our works are the mirror wherein the spirit first sees its natural lineaments. Hence, too, the folly of that impossible precept, Know theyself till it be translated into this partially possible one, know what thou canst work at.
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The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.
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I have seen gleams in the face and eyes of the man that have let you look into a higher country.
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Battles, in these ages, are transacted by mechanism with the slightest possible development of human individuality or spontaneity men now even die, and kill one another, in an artificial manner.
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Statistics, one may hope, will improve gradually, and become good for something. Meanwhile, it is to be feared the crabbed satirist was partly right, as things go: A judicious man, says he, looks at Statistics, not to get knowledge, but to save himself from having ignorance foisted on him.
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A vein of poetry exists in the hearts of all men.
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Let me have my own way in exactly everything and a sunnier and pleasanter creature does not exist.
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Know what thou canst work at, and work at it like a Hercules.
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Dishonesty is the raw material not of quacks only, but also in great part dupes.
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The civil authority, or that part of it which remained faithful to their trust and true to the ends of the covenant, did, in answer to their consciences, turn out a tyrant, in a way which the Christians in aftertimes will mention with honor, and all tyrants in the world look at with fear.
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The graceful minuet-dance of fancy must give place to the toilsome, thorny pilgrimage of understanding. On the transition from the age of romance to that of science.
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Consider in fact, a body of six hundred and fifty-eight miscellaneous persons, set to consult about business, with twenty-seven millions, mostly fools, assiduously listening to them, and checking and criticising them. Was there ever, since the world began, will there ever be till the world end, any business accomplished in these circumstan
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The lightning spark of thought generated in the solitary mind awakens its likeness in another mind.
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We do everything by custom, even believe by it our very axioms, let us boast of free-thinking as we may, are oftenest simply such beliefs as we have never heard questioned.
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Whose school-hours are all the days and nights of our existence.
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Rare benevolence, the minister of God.
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The world is an old woman, and mistakes any gilt farthing for a gold coin whereby being often cheated, she will thenceforth trust nothing but the common copper.
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Of a truth, men are mystically united: a mystic bond of brotherhood makes all men one.
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