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History is the new poetry.
Thomas Carlyle
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Thomas Carlyle
Age: 85 †
Born: 1795
Born: December 4
Died: 1881
Died: February 5
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The insignificant, the empty, is usually the loud and after the manner of a drum, is louder even because of its emptiness.
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Know what thou canst work at, and work at it like a Hercules.
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Be a pattern to others, and then all will go well for as a whole city is affected by the licentious passions and vices of great men, so it is likewise reformed by their moderation.
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A fair day's wages for a fair day's work.
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Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope this world of his is emphatically the place of hope.
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Secrecy is the element of all goodness even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
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Great is wisdom infinite is the value of wisdom. It cannot be exaggerated it is the highest achievement of man.
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Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom.
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Heroes, it would seem, exist always and a certain worship of them.
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To the wisest man, wide as is his vision. Nature remains of quite infinite depth, of quite infinite expansion and all experience thereof limits itself to some few computed centuries and measured square miles.
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When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent.
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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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The leafy blossoming present time springs from the whole past, remembered and unrememberable.
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The Highest Being reveals himself in man.
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Speak not at all, in any wise, till you have somewhat to speak care not for the reward of your speaking, but simply and with undivided mind for the truth of your speaking.
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The Christian must be consumed by the conviction of the infinite beauty of holiness and the infinite damnability of sin.
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One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO.
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Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can.
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Nothing that was worthy in the past departs no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.
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A stammering man is never a worthless one. Physiology can tell you why. It is an excess of sensibility to the presence of his fellow creature, that makes him stammer.
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