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Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.
Thomas Carlyle
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Thomas Carlyle
Age: 85 †
Born: 1795
Born: December 4
Died: 1881
Died: February 5
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Hardened round us, encasing wholly every notion we form is a wrapping of traditions, hearsay's, and mere words.
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A fair day's wage for a fair day's work: it is as just a demand as governed men ever made of governing. It is the everlasting right of man.
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Blessed is he who has found his work let him ask no other blessedness. He has a work, a Life-purpose... Get your happiness out of your work or you will never know what real happiness is... Even in the meanest sorts of Labour, the whole soul of a man is composed into a kind of real harmony the instant he sets himself to work!
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Love not Pleasure love God.
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The cut of a garment speaks of intellect and talent and the color of temperament and heart.
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The great silent man! Looking round on the noisy inanity of the world,--words with little meaning, actions with little worth,--one loves to reflect on the great Empire of Silence.
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Infinite is the help man can yield to man.
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A mind that has seen, and suffered, and done, speaks to us of what it has tried and conquered.
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If a book comes from the heart, it will contrive to reach other hearts all art and author-craft are of small amount to that.
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I call that [Book of Job], apart from all theories about it, one of the grandest things ever written with pen.
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Thought will not work except in silence.
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For man is not the creature and product of Mechanism but, in a far truer sense, its creator and producer.
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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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The first sin in our universe was Lucifer's self conceit.
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Cease to brag to me of America, and its model institutions and constitutions. America, too, will have to strain its energies, crack its sinews, and all but break its heart, as the rest of us have had to do, in thousand-fold wrestle with the Pythons, and mud-demons, before it can become a babitation for the gods.
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