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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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Reform is not pleasant, but grievous no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation.
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Youth is to all the glad season of life but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.
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The depth of our despair measures what capability and height of claim we have to hope.
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The soul gives unity to what it looks at with love.
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The thing is not only to avoid error, but to attain immense masses of truth.
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A stammering man is never a worthless one. Physiology can tell you why. It is an excess of sensibility to the presence of his fellow creature, that makes him stammer.
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One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO.
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War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle therefore they take boys from one village and another village, stick them into uniforms, equip them with guns, and let them loose like wild beasts against one other.
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The goal of yesterday will be our starting-point to-morrow.
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Government is emphatically a machine: to the discontented a taxing machine, to the contented a machine for securing property.
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The hell of these days is the fear of not getting along, especially of not making money.
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What you see, but can't see over is as good as infinite.
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Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such: it is an accident, not a property, of a man like light, it can give little or nothing, but at most may show what is given.
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True friends, like ivy and the wall Both stand together, and together fall.
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Thought, true labor of any kind, highest virtue itself, is it not the daughter of Pain?
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Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It's a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment.
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Skepticism . . . is not intellectual only it is moral also, a chronic atrophy and disease of the whole soul.
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A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.
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The coldest word was once a glowing new metaphor.
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Also, what mountains of dead ashes, wreck and burnt bones, does assiduous pedantry dig up from the past time and name it History.
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