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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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The world is an old woman, and mistakes any gilt farthing for a gold coin whereby being often cheated, she will thenceforth trust nothing but the common copper.
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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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Worship of a hero is transcendent admiration of a great man.
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Be not a slave of words.
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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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It is a fact which escapes no one, that, generally speaking, whoso is acquainted with his worth has but a little stock to cultivate acquaintance with.
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It is not a lucky word, this name impossible no good comes of those who have it so often in their mouths.
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