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Of a truth, men are mystically united: a mystic bond of brotherhood makes all men one.
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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When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.
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If Hero means sincere man, why may not every one of us be a Hero?
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Speech is great, but silence is greater.
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A heavenly awe overshadowed and encompassed, as it still ought, and must, all earthly business whatsoever.
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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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