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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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Government is emphatically a machine: to the discontented a taxing machine, to the contented a machine for securing property.
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It is well said, in every sense, that a man's religion is the chief fact with regard to him.
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Battles, in these ages, are transacted by mechanism with the slightest possible development of human individuality or spontaneity men now even die, and kill one another, in an artificial manner.
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If a book comes from the heart, it will contrive to reach other hearts all art and author-craft are of small amount to that.
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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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Skepticism . . . is not intellectual only it is moral also, a chronic atrophy and disease of the whole soul.
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Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together that at length they may emerge, full-formed and majestic, into the daylight of Life, which they are thenceforth to rule.
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The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.
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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 Orator persuades and carries all with him, he knows not how the Rhetorician can prove that he ought to have persuaded and carried all with him.
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Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.
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We have not the love of greatness, but the love of the love of greatness.
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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 man.
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A sad spectacle. If they be inhabited, what a scope for misery and folly. If they be not inhabited, what a waste of space.
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All human things do require to have an ideal in them to have some soul in them.
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The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.
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If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it.
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Our grand business undoubtedly is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
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The first sin in our universe was Lucifer's self conceit.
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Earnestness alone makes life eternity.
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