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If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated readings deserves to be read at all.
Thomas Carlyle
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Thomas Carlyle
Age: 85 †
Born: 1795
Born: December 4
Died: 1881
Died: February 5
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Obedience is our universal duty and destiny wherein whoso will not bend must break too early and too thoroughly we cannot be trained to know that would, in this world of ours, is a mere zero to should, and for most part as the smallest of fractions even to shall.
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The depth of our despair measures what capability and height of claim we have to hope.
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A background of wrath, which can be stirred up to the murderous infernal pitch, does lie in every man.
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The crash of the whole solar and stellar systems could only kill you once.
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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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No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, could ever compel the soul of man to believe or to disbelieve: it is his own indefeasible light, that judgment of his he will reign and believe there by the grace of God alone!
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Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity speech is shallow as Time.
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Do nothing, only keep agitating, debating and things will destroy themselves.
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Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, altogether past calculation its powers of endurance.
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What you see, but can't see over is as good as infinite.
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There is so much data available to us, but most data won't help us succeed.
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This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.
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Pin your faith to no ones sleeves, haven't you two eyes of your own.
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Acorns are planted silently by some unnoticed breeze.
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So much of truth, only under an ancient obsolete vesture, but the spirit of it still true, do I find in the Paganism of old nations. Nature is still divine, the revelation of the workings of God the Hero is still worshipable: this, under poor cramped incipient forms, is what all Pagan religions have struggled, as they could, to set forth.
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Love is the only game that is not called on account of darkness.
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In our wide world there is but one altogether fatal personage, the dunce,--he that speaks irrationally, that sees not, and yet thinks he sees.
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How indestructibly the good grows, and propagates itself, even among the weedy entanglements of evil.
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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.
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Habit is the deepest law of human nature
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