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What you see, but can't see over is as good as infinite.
Thomas Carlyle
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Thomas Carlyle
Age: 85 †
Born: 1795
Born: December 4
Died: 1881
Died: February 5
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A background of wrath, which can be stirred up to the murderous infernal pitch, does lie in every man.
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Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, altogether past calculation its powers of endurance.
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Nature, after all, is still the grand agent in making poets.
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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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History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.
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There is something in man which your science cannot satisfy.
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The great law of culture is, Let each become all that he was created capable of being expand, if possible, to his full growth resisting all impediments, casting off all foreign, especially all noxious adhesions, and show himself at length in his own shape and stature be these what they may.
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The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows. The greatest of faults, I should say is to be conscious of none.
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All history . . . is an inarticulate Bible.
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Courtesy is the due of man to man not of suit-of-clothes to suit-of-clothes.
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A battle is a terrible conjugation of the verb to kill: I kill, thou killest, he kills, we kill, they kill, all kill.
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The hell of these days is the fear of not getting along, especially of not making money.
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