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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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Thomas Carlyle
Age: 85 †
Born: 1795
Born: December 4
Died: 1881
Died: February 5
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All work of man is as the swimmer's: a vast ocean threatens to devour him if he front it not bravely, it will keep its word.
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All evil is like a nightmare the instant you stir under it, the evil is gone.
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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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The true eye for talent presupposes the true reverence for it.
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Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.
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Statistics, one may hope, will improve gradually, and become good for something. Meanwhile, it is to be feared the crabbed satirist was partly right, as things go: A judicious man, says he, looks at Statistics, not to get knowledge, but to save himself from having ignorance foisted on him.
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Government is emphatically a machine: to the discontented a taxing machine, to the contented a machine for securing property.
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Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with.
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The civil authority, or that part of it which remained faithful to their trust and true to the ends of the covenant, did, in answer to their consciences, turn out a tyrant, in a way which the Christians in aftertimes will mention with honor, and all tyrants in the world look at with fear.
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There is always hope in a man that actually and earnestly works: in Idleness alone is there perpetual despair.
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Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
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Happy season of virtuous youth, when shame is still an impassable barrier, and the sacred air-cities of hope have not shrunk into the mean clay hamlets of reality and man, by his nature, is yet infinite and free.
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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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In idleness there is a perpetual despair.
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The latest gospel in this world is, know thy work and do it.
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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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The greatest fault is to be conscious of none.
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Doubt of any kind cannot be resolved except by action.
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Youth is to all the glad season of life but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.
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