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Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.
Thomas Carlyle
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Thomas Carlyle
Age: 85 †
Born: 1795
Born: December 4
Died: 1881
Died: February 5
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Affectation is the product of falsehood.
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Burke said there were Three Estates in Parliament but, in the Reporter's gallery yonder, there sat a fourth estate more important far than they all.
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Nothing ever happens but once in all this world. What I do now I do once for all. It is over and gone, with all its eternity of solemn meaning.
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If there be not a religious element in the relations of men, such relations are miserable and doomed to ruin.
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It is not honest inquiry that makes anarchy but it is error, insincerity, half belief and untruth that make it.
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A star is beautiful it affords pleasure, not from what it is to do, or to give, but simply by being what it is. It befits the heavens it has congruity with the mighty space in which it dwells. It has repose no force disturbs its eternal peace. It has freedom no obstruction lies between it and infinity.
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History is the essence of innumerable biographies.
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Every noble crown is, and on Earth will forever be, a crown of thorns.
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Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.
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I came hither [Craigenputtoch] solely with the design to simplify my way of life and to secure the independence through which I could be enabled to remain true to myself.
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The best lesson which we get from the tragedy of Karbala is that Husain and his companions were rigid believers in God. They illustrated that the numerical superiority does not count when it comes to the truth and the falsehood. The victory of Husain, despite his minority, marvels me!
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A background of wrath, which can be stirred up to the murderous infernal pitch, does lie in every man.
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The great silent man! Looking round on the noisy inanity of the world,--words with little meaning, actions with little worth,--one loves to reflect on the great Empire of Silence.
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Once the mind has been expanded by a big idea, it will never go back to its original state.
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Ill-health, of body or of mind, is defeat. Health alone is victory. Let all men, if they can manage it, contrive to be healthy!
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There is always hope in a man that actually and earnestly works: in Idleness alone is there perpetual despair.
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The thing is not only to avoid error, but to attain immense masses of truth.
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No person is important enough to make me angry.
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It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.
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