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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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Philosopher of Chelsea
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History is the new poetry.
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Once turn to practice, error and truth will no longer consort together.
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The latest gospel in this world is, know thy work and do it.
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It is in general more profitable to reckon up our defeats than to boast of our attainments.
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The lightning spark of thought generated in the solitary mind awakens its likeness in another mind.
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Work earnestly at anything, you will by degrees learn to work at all things.
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