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It is a mathematical fact that the casting of this pebble from my hand alters the centre of gravity of the universe.
Thomas Carlyle
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Thomas Carlyle
Age: 85 †
Born: 1795
Born: December 4
Died: 1881
Died: February 5
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Rest is a fine medicine. Let your stomachs rest, ye dyspeptics let your brain rest, you wearied and worried people of business let your limbs rest, ye children of toil!
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Dishonesty is the raw material not of quacks only, but also in great part dupes.
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Let me have my own way in exactly everything and a sunnier and pleasanter creature does not exist.
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A false man found a religion? Why, a false man cannot build a brick house!
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True friends, like ivy and the wall Both stand together, and together fall.
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Laws, written, if not on stone tables, yet on the azure of infinitude, in the inner heart of God's creation, certain as life, certain as death, are there, and thou shalt not disobey them.
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