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By nature man hates change seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.
Thomas Carlyle
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Thomas Carlyle
Age: 85 †
Born: 1795
Born: December 4
Died: 1881
Died: February 5
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The choking, sweltering, deadly, and killing rule of no rule the consecration of cupidity and braying of folly, and dim stupidity and baseness, in most of the affairs of men. Slopshirts attainable three-halfpence cheaper by the ruin of living bodies and immortal souls.
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Lives the man that can figure a naked Duke of Windlestraw addressing a naked House of Lords?
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So much of truth, only under an ancient obsolete vesture, but the spirit of it still true, do I find in the Paganism of old nations. Nature is still divine, the revelation of the workings of God the Hero is still worshipable: this, under poor cramped incipient forms, is what all Pagan religions have struggled, as they could, to set forth.
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The crash of the whole solar and stellar systems could only kill you once.
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Just in ratio as knowledge increases, faith diminishes.
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Once the mind has been expanded by a big idea, it will never go back to its original state.
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Professors of the Dismal Science, I perceive the length of your tether is now pretty well run and I must request you to talk a little lower in the future.
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Blessed is he who has found his work let him ask no other blessedness.
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If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated readings deserves to be read at all.
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Worship of a hero is transcendent admiration of a great man.
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And yet without labour there were no ease, no rest, so much as conceivable.
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There is a perennial nobleness, and even sacredness, in work. Were he never so benighted, forgetful of his high calling, there is always hope in a man that actually and earnestly works: in idleness alone there is perpetual despair.
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The public is anold woman.Let her maunderand mumble.
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The lightning spark of thought generated in the solitary mind awakens its likeness in another mind.
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This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.
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Let him who would move and convince others, be first moved and convinced himself.
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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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All great peoples are conservative.
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The press is the fourth estate of the realm.
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