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Let me have my own way in exactly everything and a sunnier and pleasanter creature does not exist.
Thomas Carlyle
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Thomas Carlyle
Age: 85 †
Born: 1795
Born: December 4
Died: 1881
Died: February 5
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In our wide world there is but one altogether fatal personage, the dunce,--he that speaks irrationally, that sees not, and yet thinks he sees.
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Speech is too often not the art of concealing thought, but of quite stifling and suspending thought, so that there is none to conceal.
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It is not a lucky word, this name impossible no good comes of those who have it so often in their mouths.
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It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.
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History is philosophy teaching by experience.
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There is a majesty and mystery in nature, take her as you will. The essence of poetry comes breathing to a mind that feels from every province of her empire.
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To the mean eye all things are trivial, as certainly as to the jaundiced they are yellow.
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If Hero means sincere man, why may not every one of us be a Hero?
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The most unhappy of all men is the man who cannot tell what he is going to do, who has got no work cut-out for him in the world, and does not go into it. For work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind,honest work, which you intend getting done.
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The goal of yesterday will be our starting-point to-morrow.
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He is wise who can instruct us and assist us in the business of virtuous living.
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Our grand business undoubtedly is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
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This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.
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The mystery of a person, indeed, is ever divine to him that has a sense for the godlike.
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A man lives by believing something.
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No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.
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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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Rest is for the dead.
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The dead are all holy, even they that were base and wicked while alive. Their baseness and wickedness was not they, was but the heavy and unmanageable environment that lay round them.
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The lightning spark of thought generated in the solitary mind awakens its likeness in another mind.
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