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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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Enjoying things which are pleasant that is not the evil it is the reducing of our moral self to slavery by them that is.
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With union grounded on falsehood and ordering us to speak and act lies, we will not have anything to do. Peace? A brutal lethargy is peaceable the noisome is peaceable. We hope for a living peace, not a dead one!
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Hardened round us, encasing wholly every notion we form is a wrapping of traditions, hearsay's, and mere words.
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A heavenly awe overshadowed and encompassed, as it still ought, and must, all earthly business whatsoever.
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The first duty of man is to conquer fear he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.
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There is often more spiritual force in a proverb than in whole philosophical systems.
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Let him who would move and convince others, be first moved and convinced himself.
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