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Have a purpose in life, and having it, throw into your work such strength of mind and muscle as God has given you.
Thomas Carlyle
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Thomas Carlyle
Age: 85 †
Born: 1795
Born: December 4
Died: 1881
Died: February 5
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There must be a new world if there is to be any world at all!... These days of universal death must be days of universal new birth, if the ruin is not to be total and final! It is Time to make the dullest man consider and ask himself, Whence he came? Whither he is bound?
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There can be no acting or doing of any kind till it be recognized that there is a thing to be done the thing once recognized, doing in a thousand shapes becomes possible.
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Nothing that was worthy in the past departs no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.
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I want to meet my God awake.
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A very sea of thought neither calm nor clear, if you will, yet wherein the toughest pearl-diver may dive to his utmost depth, and return not only with sea-wreck but with true orients.
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The age of miracles is forever here.
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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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Let me have my own way in exactly everything and a sunnier and pleasanter creature does not exist.
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The Highest Being reveals himself in man.
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Good Christian people, here lies for you an inestimable loan take all heed thereof, in all carefulness, employ it: with high recompense, or else with heavy penalty, will it one day be required back.
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The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows. The greatest of faults, I should say is to be conscious of none.
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Nine-tenths of the miseries and vices of mankind proceed from idleness.
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Science has done much for us but it is a poor science that would hide from us the great deep sacred infinitude of Nescience, on which all science swims as a mere superficial film.
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Out of Eternity the new day is born Into Eternity at night will return.
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Philosophy dwells aloft in the Temple of Science, the divinity of its inmost shrine her dictates descend among men, but she herself descends not : whoso would behold her must climb with long and laborious effort, nay, still linger in the forecourt, till manifold trial have proved him worthy of admission into the interior solemnities.
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A man ought to inquire and find out what he really and truly has an appetite for what suits his constitution and that, doctors tell him, is the very thing he ought to have in general. And so with books.
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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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Eternity looks grander and kinder if time grow meaner and more hostile.
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The best lesson which we get from the tragedy of Karbala is that Husain and his companions were rigid believers in God. They illustrated that the numerical superiority does not count when it comes to the truth and the falsehood. The victory of Husain, despite his minority, marvels me!
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Happy season of virtuous youth, when shame is still an impassable barrier, and the sacred air-cities of hope have not shrunk into the mean clay hamlets of reality and man, by his nature, is yet infinite and free.
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