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Love is ever the beginning of knowledge as fire is of light.
Thomas Carlyle
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Thomas Carlyle
Age: 85 †
Born: 1795
Born: December 4
Died: 1881
Died: February 5
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They wrong man greatly who say he is to be seduced by ease. Difficulty, abnegation, martyrdom, death are the allurements that act on the heart of man.
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Conclusive facts are inseparable from inconclusive except by a head that already understands and knows.
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Hardened round us, encasing wholly every notion we form is a wrapping of traditions, hearsay's, and mere words.
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Piety does not mean that a man should make a sour face about things, and refuse to enjoy in moderation what his Maker has given.
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An everlasting lodestar, that beams the brighter in the heavens the darker here on earth grows the night.
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No good book or good thing of any kind shows it best face at first. No the most common quality of in a true work of art that has excellence and depth, is that at first sight it produces a certain disappointment.
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The meaning of song goes deep. Who in logical words can explain the effect music has on us? A kind of inarticulate, unfathomable speech, which leads us to the edge of the infinite, and lets us for a moment gaze into that!
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There is often more spiritual force in a proverb than in whole philosophical systems.
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Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful yet ever needful and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.
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Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.
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A man--be the heavens ever praised!--is sufficient for himself.
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Speech that leads not to action, still more that hinders it, is a nuisance on the earth.
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What unknown seas of feeling lie in man, and will from time to time break through!
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As there is no danger of our becoming, any of us, Mahometans (i.e. Muslim), I mean to say all the good of him I justly can.
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A dandy is a clothes-wearing man--a man whose trade, office, and existence consist in the wearing of clothes. Every faculty of his soul, spirit, person and purse is heroically consecrated to this one object--the wearing of clothes, wisely and well so that, as others dress to live, he lives to dress.
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We have not the love of greatness, but the love of the love of greatness.
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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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The outer passes away the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
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The first sin in our universe was Lucifer's self conceit.
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It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.
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