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In a certain sense all men are historians.
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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Laws themselves, political Constitutions, are not our Life but only the house wherein our Life is led.
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This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.
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The world is a thing that a man must learn to despise, and even to neglect, before he can learn to reverence it, and work in it and for it.
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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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Are not our greatest men as good as lost? The men that walk daily among us, warming us, feeding us, walk shrouded in darkness, mere mythic men.
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Affectation is the product of falsehood.
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If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated readings deserves to be read at all.
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The soul gives unity to what it looks at with love.
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All work is as seed sown it grows and spreads, and sows itself anew.
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The Present is the living sum-total of the whole Past.
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The All of Things is an infinite conjugation of the verb To do .
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Little other than a red tape Talking-machine, and unhappy Bag of Parliamentary Eloquence.
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Acorns are planted silently by some unnoticed breeze.
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Of all the paths a man could strike into, there is, at any given moment, a best path .. A thing which, here and now, it were of all things wisest for him to do .. To find this path, and walk in it, is the one thing needful for him.
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Authors are the vanguard in the march of mind, the intellectual backwoodsmen, reclaiming from the idle wilderness new territories for the thought and activity of their happier brethren.
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Eternity looks grander and kinder if time grow meaner and more hostile.
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Reform is not pleasant, but grievous no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation.
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What unknown seas of feeling lie in man, and will from time to time break through!
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Have not I myself known five hundred living soldiers sabred into crows' meat for a piece of glazed cotton, which they call their flag which had you sold it at any market-cross, would not have brought above three groschen?
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The great soul of this world is just.
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