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The word of Mohammad is a voice direct from nature's own heart - all else is wind in comparison.
Thomas Carlyle
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Thomas Carlyle
Age: 85 †
Born: 1795
Born: December 4
Died: 1881
Died: February 5
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The first sin in our universe was Lucifer's self conceit.
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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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Shakespeare says, we are creatures that look before and after the more surprising that we do not look around a little, and see what is passing under our very eyes.
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A judicious man looks at Statistics, not to get knowledge, but to save himself from having ignorance foisted 'on him.
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Misery which, through long ages, had no spokesman, no helper, will now be its own helper and speak for itself.
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It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.
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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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A witty statesman said, you might prove anything by figures.
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Genuine Work alone, what thou workest faithfully, that is eternal, as the Almighty Founder and World-Builder himself.
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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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When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent.
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Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such: it is an accident, not a property, of a man like light, it can give little or nothing, but at most may show what is given.
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He that can work is born to be king of something.
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Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will.
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A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.
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True friends, like ivy and the wall Both stand together, and together fall.
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Thirty millions, mostly fools.
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In the huge mass of evil as it rolls and swells, there is ever some good working toward deliverance and triumph.
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If a book comes from the heart, it will contrive to reach other hearts all art and author-craft are of small amount to that.
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Love not Pleasure love God.
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