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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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Nature is the time-vesture of God that reveals Him to the wise, and hides him from the foolish.
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The latest gospel in this world is, know thy work and do it.
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There is often more spiritual force in a proverb than in whole philosophical systems.
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Love is the only game that is not called on account of darkness.
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A witty statesman said, you might prove anything by figures.
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Let one who wants to move and convince others, first be convinced and moved themselves. If a person speaks with genuine earnestness the thoughts, the emotion and the actual condition of their own heart, others will listen because we all are knit together by the tie of sympathy.
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Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.
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The greatest fault is to be conscious of none.
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Rest is for the dead.
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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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Society is founded on hero-worship.
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And yet without labour there were no ease, no rest, so much as conceivable.
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In idleness there is a perpetual despair.
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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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Our grand business undoubtedly is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
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