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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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Philosopher of Chelsea
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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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Thought will not work except in silence.
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In a different time, in a different place, it is always some other side of our common human nature that has been developing itself. The actual truth is the sum of all these.
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The Ideal is in thyself, the impediments too is in thyself.
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There is often more spiritual force in a proverb than in whole philosophical systems.
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When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.
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In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment.
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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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The Present is the living sum-total of the whole Past.
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No man lives without jostling and being jostled in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.
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A word spoken in season, at the right moment is the mother of ages.
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The whole past is the procession of the present.
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The latest gospel in this world is, know thy work and do it.
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What is all Knowledge too but recorded Experience, and a product of History of which, therefore, Reasoning and Belief, no less than Action and Passion, are essential materials?
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Success in life, in anything, depends upon the number of persons that one can make himself agreeable to.
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The Highest Being reveals himself in man.
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Nine-tenths of the miseries and vices of mankind proceed from idleness.
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True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.
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No good book or good thing of any kind shows it best face at first. No the most common quality of in a true work of art that has excellence and depth, is that at first sight it produces a certain disappointment.
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Might and right do differ frightfully from hour to hour, but then centuries to try it in, they are found to be identical.
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