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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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No nobler feeling than this, of admiration for one higher than himself, dwells in the breast of man. It is to this hour, and at all hours, the vivifying influence in man's life.
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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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The public is anold woman.Let her maunderand mumble.
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It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.
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A sad spectacle. If they be inhabited, what a scope for misery and folly. If they be not inhabited, what a waste of space.
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