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The end of Man is an Action, and not a Thought, though it were the noblest?
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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Nature, after all, is still the grand agent in making poets.
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A fair day's wage for a fair day's work: it is as just a demand as governed men ever made of governing. It is the everlasting right of man.
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There is precious instruction to be got by finding we were wrong.
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It is part of my creed that the only poetry is history, could we tell it right.
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A thought once awakened does not again slumber.
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Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It's a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment.
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Have a purpose in life, and having it, throw into your work such strength of mind and muscle as God has given you.
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Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do that with all thy might and leave the issues calmly to God.
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There is no life of a man, faithfully recorded, but is a heroic poem of its sort, rhymed or unrhymed.
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I came hither [Craigenputtoch] solely with the design to simplify my way of life and to secure the independence through which I could be enabled to remain true to myself.
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Without kindness there can be no true joy.
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There is a majesty and mystery in nature, take her as you will. The essence of poetry comes breathing to a mind that feels from every province of her empire.
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Hero-worship exists, has existed, and will forever exist, universally, among mankind.
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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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Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will.
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The first duty of man is that of subduing fear.
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