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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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Philosopher of Chelsea
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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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Conclusive facts are inseparable from inconclusive except by a head that already understands and knows.
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Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
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Ill-health, of body or of mind, is defeat. Health alone is victory. Let all men, if they can manage it, contrive to be healthy!
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Thought will not work except in silence.
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It is part of my creed that the only poetry is history, could we tell it right.
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Also, what mountains of dead ashes, wreck and burnt bones, does assiduous pedantry dig up from the past time and name it History.
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No man sees far, most see no farther than their noses.
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The world is an old woman, and mistakes any gilt farthing for a gold coin whereby being often cheated, she will thenceforth trust nothing but the common copper.
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There is no life of a man, faithfully recorded, but is a heroic poem of its sort, rhymed or unrhymed.
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The mystical bond of brotherhood makes all men brothers.
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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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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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As there is no danger of our becoming, any of us, Mahometans (i.e. Muslim), I mean to say all the good of him I justly can.
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History is the distillation of rumour.
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A man must indeed be a hero to appear such in the eyes of his valet.
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Unity, agreement, is always silent or soft-voiced it is only discord that loudly proclaims itself.
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Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
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Blessed is he who has found his work let him ask no other blessedness.
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I came hither [Craigenputtoch] solely with the design to simplify my way of life and to secure the independence through which I could be enabled to remain true to myself.
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