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Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such it is an accident, not a property of man.
Thomas Carlyle
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Thomas Carlyle
Age: 85 †
Born: 1795
Born: December 4
Died: 1881
Died: February 5
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Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.
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Providence has given to the French the empire of the land, to the English that of the sea, to the Germans that of--the air!
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Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the architect of circumstance.
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Thought, true labor of any kind, highest virtue itself, is it not the daughter of Pain?
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Wonderful Force of Public Opinion! We must act and walk in all points as it prescribes follow the traffic it bids us, realize the sum of money, the degree of influence it expects of us, or we shall be lightly esteemed certain mouthfuls of articulate wind will be blown at us, and this what mortal courage can front?
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No violent extreme endures.
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There is precious instruction to be got by finding we were wrong.
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Oblivion is the dark page, whereon Memory writes her light-beam characters, and makes them legible were it all light, nothing could be read there, any more than if it were all darkness.
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He is wise who can instruct us and assist us in the business of virtuous living.
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Cease to brag to me of America, and its model institutions and constitutions. America, too, will have to strain its energies, crack its sinews, and all but break its heart, as the rest of us have had to do, in thousand-fold wrestle with the Pythons, and mud-demons, before it can become a babitation for the gods.
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Clean undeniable right, clear undeniable might: either of these once ascertained puts an end to battle. All battle is a confused experiment to ascertain one and both of these.
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To be true is manly, chivalrous, Christian to be false is mean, cowardly, devilish.
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Dishonesty is the raw material not of quacks only, but also in great part dupes.
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History is the new poetry.
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All reform except a moral one will prove unavailing.
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