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There is no life of a man, faithfully recorded, but is a heroic poem of its sort, rhymed or unrhymed.
Thomas Carlyle
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Thomas Carlyle
Age: 85 †
Born: 1795
Born: December 4
Died: 1881
Died: February 5
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With union grounded on falsehood and ordering us to speak and act lies, we will not have anything to do. Peace? A brutal lethargy is peaceable the noisome is peaceable. We hope for a living peace, not a dead one!
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Rightly viewed no meanest object is insignificant all objects are as windows through which the philosophic eye looks into infinitude itself.
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Cherish what is dearest while you have it near you, and wait not till it is far away. Blind and deaf that we are oh, think, if thou yet love anybody living, wait not till death sweep down the paltry little dust clouds and dissonances of the moment, and all be made at last so mournfully clear and beautiful, when it is too late.
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Pain was not given thee merely to be miserable under learn from it, turn it to account.
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The depth of our despair measures what capability and height of claim we have to hope.
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History is the essence of innumerable biographies.
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Nature, after all, is still the grand agent in making poets.
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There can be no acting or doing of any kind till it be recognized that there is a thing to be done the thing once recognized, doing in a thousand shapes becomes possible.
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Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the architect of circumstance.
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Macaulay is well for awhile, but one wouldn't live under Niagara.
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The greatest mistake is to imagine that we never err.
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Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can.
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Our works are the mirror wherein the spirit first sees its natural lineaments. Hence, too, the folly of that impossible precept, Know theyself till it be translated into this partially possible one, know what thou canst work at.
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Goethe's devil is a cultivated personage and acquainted with the modern sciences sneers at witchcraft and the black art even while employing them, and doubts most things, nay, half disbelieves even his own existence.
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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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They only are wise who know that they know nothing.
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If Hero means sincere man, why may not every one of us be a Hero?
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The latest gospel in this world is, know thy work and do it.
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Every man is my superior in that I may learn from him.
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Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with.
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