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Every man is my superior in that I may learn from him.
Thomas Carlyle
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Thomas Carlyle
Age: 85 †
Born: 1795
Born: December 4
Died: 1881
Died: February 5
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Reform is not pleasant, but grievous no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation.
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Pin your faith to no ones sleeves, haven't you two eyes of your own.
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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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A word spoken in season, at the right moment is the mother of ages.
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No man at bottom means injustice it is always for some obscure distorted image of a right that he contends: an obscure image diffracted, exaggerated, in the wonderfulest way by natural dimness and selfishness getting tenfold more diffracted by exasperation of contest, till at length it become all but irrecognis-able.
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Freedom is the one purport, wisely aimed at, or unwisely, of all man's struggles, toilings and sufferings, in this earth.
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Naps are a way of traveling painlessly through time into the future.
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The true eye for talent presupposes the true reverence for it.
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Not on morality, but on cookery, let us build our stronghold: there brandishing our frying-pan, as censer, let us offer sweet incense to the Devil, and live at ease on the fat things he has provided for his elect!
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A poor creature who has said or done nothing worth a serious man taking the trouble of remembering.
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The aristocracy of feudal parchment has passed away with a mighty rushing, and now, by a natural course, we arrive at aristocracy of the money-bag.
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The choking, sweltering, deadly, and killing rule of no rule the consecration of cupidity and braying of folly, and dim stupidity and baseness, in most of the affairs of men. Slopshirts attainable three-halfpence cheaper by the ruin of living bodies and immortal souls.
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And yet without labour there were no ease, no rest, so much as conceivable.
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The true epic of our times is not Arm's and the Man, but Tools and the Man--an infinitely wider kind of epic.
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They only are wise who know that they know nothing.
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Time is the silent, never-resting thing ... rolling, rushing on, swift, silent, like an all-embracing oceantide, on which we and all the universe swim.
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In idleness there is a perpetual despair.
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History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.
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If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated readings deserves to be read at all.
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The Highest Being reveals himself in man.
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