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Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such: it is an accident, not a property, of a man like light, it can give little or nothing, but at most may show what is given.
Thomas Carlyle
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Thomas Carlyle
Age: 85 †
Born: 1795
Born: December 4
Died: 1881
Died: February 5
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Rest is a fine medicine. Let your stomachs rest, ye dyspeptics let your brain rest, you wearied and worried people of business let your limbs rest, ye children of toil!
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The Highest Being reveals himself in man.
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Parliament will train you to talk and above all things to hear, with patience, unlimited quantities of foolish talk.
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Cash-payment never was, or could except for a few years be, the union-bond of man to man. Cash never yet paid one man fully his deserts to another nor could it, nor can it, now or henceforth to the end of the world.
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Providence has given to the French the empire of the land, to the English that of the sea, to the Germans that of--the air!
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Reform, like charity, must begin at home.
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Nothing ever happens but once in all this world. What I do now I do once for all. It is over and gone, with all its eternity of solemn meaning.
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The greatest fault is to be conscious of none.
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The first sin in our universe was Lucifer's self conceit.
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Let a man try faithfully, manfully to be right he will grow daily more and more right. It is at bottom the condition on which all men have to cultivate themselves.
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Once the mind has been expanded by a big idea, it will never go back to its original state.
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