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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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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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No person is important enough to make me angry.
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No man lives without jostling and being jostled in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.
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A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.
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The first duty of man is that of subduing fear.
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How indestructibly the good grows, and propagates itself, even among the weedy entanglements of evil.
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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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I have seen gleams in the face and eyes of the man that have let you look into a higher country.
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One monster there is in the world, the idle man.
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The beginning of all wisdom is to look fixedly on clothes, or even with armed eyesight, till they become transparent.
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Courtesy is the due of man to man not of suit-of-clothes to suit-of-clothes.
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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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A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.
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Statistics is a science which ought to be honourable, the basis of many most important sciences but it is not to be carried on by steam, this science, any more than others are a wise head is requisite for carrying it on.
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The Builder of this Universe was wise, He plann'd all souls, all systems, planets, particles: The Plan He shap'd all Worlds and Æons by, Was-Heavens!-was thy small Nine-and-thirty Articles!
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Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
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Hardened round us, encasing wholly every notion we form is a wrapping of traditions, hearsay's, and mere words.
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Evil and good are everywhere, like shadow and substance inseparable (for men) yet not hostile, only opposed.
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Let him who would move and convince others, be first moved and convinced himself.
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Parliament will train you to talk and above all things to hear, with patience, unlimited quantities of foolish talk.
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