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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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Philosopher of Chelsea
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Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
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Democracy means despair of finding any heroes to govern you, and contented putting up with the want of them.
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I want to meet my God awake.
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Who is it that loves me and will love me forever with an affection which no chance, no misery, no crime of mine can do away? It is you, my mother.
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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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A thought once awakened does not again slumber.
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There is precious instruction to be got by finding we were wrong.
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The Christian must be consumed by the conviction of the infinite beauty of holiness and the infinite damnability of sin.
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We do everything by custom, even believe by it our very axioms, let us boast of free-thinking as we may, are oftenest simply such beliefs as we have never heard questioned.
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The All of Things is an infinite conjugation of the verb To do .
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Endurance is patience concentrated.
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One monster there is in the world, the idle man.
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Burke said there were Three Estates in Parliament but, in the Reporter's gallery yonder, there sat a fourth estate more important far than they all.
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