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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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Providence has given to the French the empire of the land, to the English that of the sea, to the Germans that of--the air!
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A very sea of thought neither calm nor clear, if you will, yet wherein the toughest pearl-diver may dive to his utmost depth, and return not only with sea-wreck but with true orients.
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Parliament will train you to talk and above all things to hear, with patience, unlimited quantities of foolish talk.
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Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
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The times are very bad. Very well, you are there to make them better.
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The Present is the living sum-total of the whole Past.
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I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.
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Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, altogether past calculation its powers of endurance.
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The sincere alone can recognize sincerity.
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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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Cease to brag to me of America, and its model institutions and constitutions. America, too, will have to strain its energies, crack its sinews, and all but break its heart, as the rest of us have had to do, in thousand-fold wrestle with the Pythons, and mud-demons, before it can become a babitation for the gods.
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