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Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can.
Thomas Carlyle
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Thomas Carlyle
Age: 85 †
Born: 1795
Born: December 4
Died: 1881
Died: February 5
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Philosopher of Chelsea
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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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Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
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O thou who art able to write a book which once in the two centuries or oftener there is a man gifted to do, envy not him whom they name city-builder, and inexpressibly pity him whom they name conqueror or city-burner.
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Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, altogether past calculation its powers of endurance.
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What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
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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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Neither in tailoring nor in legislating does man proceed by mere accident.
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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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If there be no enemy there's no fight. If no fight, no victory and if no victory there is no crown.
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He that works and does some Poem, not he that merely says one, is worthy of the name of Poet.
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In the true Literary Man there is thus ever, acknowledged or not by the world, a sacredness: he is the light of the world the world's Priest -- guiding it, like a sacred Pillar of Fire, in its dark pilgrimage through the waste of Time.
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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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Heroes, it would seem, exist always and a certain worship of them.
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In idleness there is a perpetual despair.
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He is wise who can instruct us and assist us in the business of virtuous living.
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A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
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A fair day's wage for a fair day's work: it is as just a demand as governed men ever made of governing. It is the everlasting right of man.
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Let me have my own way in exactly everything and a sunnier and pleasanter creature does not exist.
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If I say that Shakespeare is the greatest of intellects, I have said all concerning him. But there is more in Shakespeare's intellect than we have yet seen. It is what I call an unconscious intellect there is more virtue in it that he himself is aware of.
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