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History is the distillation of rumour.
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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Rumours
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To a shower of gold most things are penetrable.
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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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Force, force, everywhere force we ourselves a mysterious force in the centre of that. There is not a leaf rotting on the highway but has Force in it: how else could it rot? [As used in his time, by the word force, Carlyle means energy.]
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A heavenly awe overshadowed and encompassed, as it still ought, and must, all earthly business whatsoever.
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Speech that leads not to action, still more that hinders it, is a nuisance on the earth.
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Blessed be the God's voice for it is true, and falsehoods have to cease before it!
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There is often more spiritual force in a proverb than in whole philosophical systems.
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He who cannot withal keep his mind to himself cannot practice any considerable thing whatsoever.
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In every object there is inexhaustible meaning the eye sees in it what the eye brings means of seeing.
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Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.
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Little other than a red tape Talking-machine, and unhappy Bag of Parliamentary Eloquence.
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In idleness there is a perpetual despair.
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Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May but at length the season of summer does come.
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Every man has a coward and hero in his soul.
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A vein of poetry exists in the hearts of all men.
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Perfect ignorance is quiet, perfect knowledge is quiet not so the transition from the former to the latter.
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Shakespeare says, we are creatures that look before and after the more surprising that we do not look around a little, and see what is passing under our very eyes.
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