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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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In the poorest cottage are Books: is one Book, wherein for several thousands of years the spirit of man has found light, and nourishment, and an interpreting response to whatever is Deepest in him.
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A man protesting against error is on the way towards uniting himself with all men that believe in truth.
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After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books.
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Reform is not pleasant, but grievous no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation.
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I call that [Book of Job], apart from all theories about it, one of the grandest things ever written with pen.
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Not on morality, but on cookery, let us build our stronghold: there brandishing our frying-pan, as censer, let us offer sweet incense to the Devil, and live at ease on the fat things he has provided for his elect!
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To the vulgar eye, few things are wonderful that are not distant
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The age of miracles is forever here.
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Of all the paths a man could strike into, there is, at any given moment, a best path .. A thing which, here and now, it were of all things wisest for him to do .. To find this path, and walk in it, is the one thing needful for him.
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The public is anold woman.Let her maunderand mumble.
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Insurrection, never so necessary, is a most sad necessity and governors who wait for that to instruct them are surely getting into the fatalest course.
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If you look deep enough you will see music the heart of nature being everywhere music.
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Wealth of a man is the number of things which he loves and blesses which he is loved and blessed by.
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Dishonesty is the raw material not of quacks only, but also in great part dupes.
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Good Christian people, here lies for you an inestimable loan take all heed thereof, in all carefulness, employ it: with high recompense, or else with heavy penalty, will it one day be required back.
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He who cannot withal keep his mind to himself cannot practice any considerable thing whatsoever.
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Happy the People whose Annals are blank in History Books!
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The Highest Being reveals himself in man.
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Clean undeniable right, clear undeniable might: either of these once ascertained puts an end to battle. All battle is a confused experiment to ascertain one and both of these.
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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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