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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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By nature man hates change seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.
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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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Enjoying things which are pleasant that is not the evil it is the reducing of our moral self to slavery by them that is.
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Blessed is he who has found his work let him ask no other blessedness. He has a work, a life-purpose he has found it, and will follow it! How, as a free-flowing channel, dug and torn by noble force through the sour mudswamp of one's existence, like an ever-deepening river there, it runs and flows
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The whole past is the procession of the present.
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May blessings be upon the head of Cadmus, the Phoenicians, or whoever it was that invented books.
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The Ideal is in thyself, the impediments too is in thyself.
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We have not read an author till we have seen his object, whatever it may be, as he saw it.
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The vulgarity of inanimate things requires time to get accustomed to but living, breathing, bustling, plotting, planning, human vulgarity is a species of moral ipecacuanha, enough to destroy any comfort.
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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 has a secret should not only hide it, but hide that he has it to hide.
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The mystery of a person, indeed, is ever divine to him that has a sense for the godlike.
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In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment.
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The aristocracy of feudal parchment has passed away with a mighty rushing, and now, by a natural course, we arrive at aristocracy of the money-bag.
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Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
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The mystical bond of brotherhood makes all men brothers.
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In a certain sense all men are historians.
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The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious.
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Love is ever the beginning of knowledge as fire is of light.
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What unknown seas of feeling lie in man, and will from time to time break through!
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