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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 sad spectacle. If they be inhabited, what a scope for misery and folly. If they be not inhabited, what a waste of space.
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Naps are a way of traveling painlessly through time into the future.
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Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong.
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Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
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Out of the lowest depths there is a path to the loftiest heights.
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Macaulay is well for awhile, but one wouldn't live under Niagara.
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Once turn to practice, error and truth will no longer consort together.
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Of all your troubles, great and small, the greatest are the ones that don't happen at all.
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See deep enough, and you see musically.
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It is meritorious to insist on forms religion and all else naturally clothes itself in forms. Everywhere the formed world is the only habitable one.
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If there be no enemy there's no fight. If no fight, no victory and if no victory there is no crown.
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The choking, sweltering, deadly, and killing rule of no rule the consecration of cupidity and braying of folly, and dim stupidity and baseness, in most of the affairs of men. Slopshirts attainable three-halfpence cheaper by the ruin of living bodies and immortal souls.
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The highest ensign that men ever met and embraced under, the Cross itself, had no meaning save an accidental extrinsic one.
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Wonderful Force of Public Opinion! We must act and walk in all points as it prescribes follow the traffic it bids us, realize the sum of money, the degree of influence it expects of us, or we shall be lightly esteemed certain mouthfuls of articulate wind will be blown at us, and this what mortal courage can front?
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A poor creature who has said or done nothing worth a serious man taking the trouble of remembering.
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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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Not on morality, but on cookery, let us build our stronghold: there brandishing our frying-pan, as censer, let us offer sweet incense to the Devil, and live at ease on the fat things he has provided for his elect!
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Reform is not pleasant, but grievous no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation.
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A star is beautiful it affords pleasure, not from what it is to do, or to give, but simply by being what it is. It befits the heavens it has congruity with the mighty space in which it dwells. It has repose no force disturbs its eternal peace. It has freedom no obstruction lies between it and infinity.
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