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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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The hell of these days is the fear of not getting along, especially of not making money.
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Clean undeniable right, clear undeniable might: either of these once ascertained puts an end to battle. All battle is a confused experiment to ascertain one and both of these.
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Considering the multitude of mortals that handle the pen in these days, and can mostly spell, and write without glaring violations of grammar, the question naturally arises: How is it, then, that no work proceeds from them, bearing any stamp of authenticity and permanence of worth for more than one day?
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How, without clothes, could we possess the master organ, soul's seat and true pineal gland of the body social--I mean a purse?
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An everlasting lodestar, that beams the brighter in the heavens the darker here on earth grows the night.
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It is part of my creed that the only poetry is history, could we tell it right.
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A witty statesman said, you might prove anything by figures.
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There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.
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No good book or good thing of any kind shows it best face at first. No the most common quality of in a true work of art that has excellence and depth, is that at first sight it produces a certain disappointment.
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There is but one temple in this Universe: The Body. We speak to God whenever we lay our hands upon it.
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No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.
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The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self activity.
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Just in ratio as knowledge increases, faith diminishes.
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The authentic insight and experience of any human soul, were it but insight and experience in hewing of wood and drawing of water, is real knowledge, a real possession and acquirement.
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Rich as we are in biography, a well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one and there are certainly many more men whose history deserves to be recorded than persons willing and able to record it.
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A mind that has seen, and suffered, and done, speaks to us of what it has tried and conquered.
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Rest is a fine medicine. Let your stomachs rest, ye dyspeptics let your brain rest, you wearied and worried people of business let your limbs rest, ye children of toil!
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