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Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will.

Thomas Carlyle

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Thomas Carlyle
Age: 85 †
Born: 1795
Born: December 4
Died: 1881
Died: February 5
Essayist
Historian
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Literary Critic
Literary Historian
Mathematician
Novelist
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Philosopher of Chelsea
Make
Rings
Life
Dance
Like
Born
World
Comes
Inspirational
Music
Dirge
Whole
Burst
Every
March

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