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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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History is philosophy teaching by experience.
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In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom we have to say, Like People like Government.
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Learn to be good readers, which is perhaps a more difficult thing than you imagine. Learn to be discriminative in your reading to read faithfully, and with your best attention, all kinds of things which you have a real interest in,--a real, not an imaginary,--and which you find to be really fit for what you are engaged in.
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It is part of my creed that the only poetry is history, could we tell it right.
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Evil and good are everywhere, like shadow and substance inseparable (for men) yet not hostile, only opposed.
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Does not every true man feel that he is himself made higher by doing reverence to what is really above him?
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Only perhaps in the United States, which alone of countries can do without governing,every man being at least able to live, and move off into the wilderness, let Congress jargon as it will,can such a form of so-called Government continue for any length of time to torment men with the semblance, when the indispensable substance is not there.
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Success in life, in anything, depends upon the number of persons that one can make himself agreeable to.
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A fair day's wages for a fair day's work.
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You can make even a parrot into a learned political economist - all he must learn are the two words supply and demand.
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A battle is a terrible conjugation of the verb to kill: I kill, thou killest, he kills, we kill, they kill, all kill.
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True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.
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The end of Man is an Action, and not a Thought, though it were the noblest?
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The archenemy is the arch stupid!
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If Hero means sincere man, why may not every one of us be a Hero?
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True friends, like ivy and the wall Both stand together, and together fall.
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All human souls, never so bedarkened, love light light once kindled spreads till all is luminous.
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What a wretched thing is all fame! A renown of the highest sort endures, say, for two thousand years. And then? Why, then, a fathomless eternity swallows it. Work for eternity not the meagre rhetorical eternity of the periodical critics, but for the real eternity wherein dwelleth the Divine.
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Of all God's creatures, Man alone is poor.
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Dishonesty is the raw material not of quacks only, but also in great part dupes.
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