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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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The public is anold woman.Let her maunderand mumble.
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Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.
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Oblivion is the dark page, whereon Memory writes her light-beam characters, and makes them legible were it all light, nothing could be read there, any more than if it were all darkness.
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As there is no danger of our becoming, any of us, Mahometans (i.e. Muslim), I mean to say all the good of him I justly can.
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See deep enough, and you see musically.
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The authentic insight and experience of any human soul, were it but insight and experience in hewing of wood and drawing of water, is real knowledge, a real possession and acquirement.
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Be a pattern to others, and then all will go well for as a whole city is affected by the licentious passions and vices of great men, so it is likewise reformed by their moderation.
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Friendship, in the old heroic sense of that term, no longer exists. It is in reality no longer expected or recognized as a virtue among men.
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Metaphysics is the attempt of the mind to rise above the mind.
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Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful yet ever needful and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.
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To be true is manly, chivalrous, Christian to be false is mean, cowardly, devilish.
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Worship is transcendent wonder.
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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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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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The English are a dumb people. They can do great acts, but not describe them.
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Out of the lowest depths there is a path to the loftiest heights.
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Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being.
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The true eye for talent presupposes the true reverence for it.
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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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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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