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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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Philosopher of Chelsea
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Democracy means despair of finding any heroes to govern you, and contented putting up with the want of them.
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A false man found a religion? Why, a false man cannot build a brick house!
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Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
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Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.
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Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.
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