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It is not a lucky word, this name impossible no good comes of those who have it so often in their mouths.
Thomas Carlyle
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Thomas Carlyle
Age: 85 †
Born: 1795
Born: December 4
Died: 1881
Died: February 5
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A mind that has seen, and suffered, and done, speaks to us of what it has tried and conquered.
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The beginning of all wisdom is to look fixedly on clothes, or even with armed eyesight, till they become transparent.
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The situation that has not its duty, its ideal, was never yet occupied by man. Yes, here, in this poor, miserable, hampered, despicable actual, wherein thou even now standest, here or nowhere is thy ideal work it out therefrom, and, working, believe, live, be free. Fool! the ideal is in thyself.
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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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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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Great is wisdom infinite is the value of wisdom. It cannot be exaggerated it is the highest achievement of man.
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If there be not a religious element in the relations of men, such relations are miserable and doomed to ruin.
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Work earnestly at anything, you will by degrees learn to work at all things.
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Every noble work is at first impossible.
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There must be a new world if there is to be any world at all!... These days of universal death must be days of universal new birth, if the ruin is not to be total and final! It is Time to make the dullest man consider and ask himself, Whence he came? Whither he is bound?
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Out of Eternity the new day is born Into Eternity at night will return.
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The age of miracles is forever here.
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