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No nobler feeling than this, of admiration for one higher than himself, dwells in the breast of man. It is to this hour, and at all hours, the vivifying influence in man's life.
Thomas Carlyle
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Thomas Carlyle
Age: 85 †
Born: 1795
Born: December 4
Died: 1881
Died: February 5
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Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do that with all thy might and leave the issues calmly to God.
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A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.
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At worst, is not this an unjust world, full of nothing but beasts of prey, four-footed or two-footed?
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A good book is the purest essence of a human soul.
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The lightning spark of thought generated in the solitary mind awakens its likeness in another mind.
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The leafy blossoming present time springs from the whole past, remembered and unrememberable.
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O Time! Time! how it brings forth and devours! And the roaring flood of existence rushes on forever similar, forever changing!
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The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious.
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Every noble crown is, and on Earth will forever be, a crown of thorns.
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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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Do nothing, only keep agitating, debating and things will destroy themselves.
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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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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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Worship of a hero is transcendent admiration of a great man.
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To say that we have a clear conscience is to utter a solecism had we never sinned we should have had no conscience. Were defeat unknown, neither would victory be celebrated by songs of triumph.
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Courtesy is the due of man to man not of suit-of-clothes to suit-of-clothes.
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A pygmy standing on the outward crust of this small planet, his far-reaching spirit stretches outward to the infinite, and there alone finds rest.
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Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.
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