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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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Eternity looks grander and kinder if time grow meaner and more hostile.
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Woe to him, . . . who has no court of appeal against the world's judgment.
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Force, force, everywhere force we ourselves a mysterious force in the centre of that. There is not a leaf rotting on the highway but has Force in it: how else could it rot? [As used in his time, by the word force, Carlyle means energy.]
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God Almighty never created a man half as wise as he looks.
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The press is the fourth estate of the realm.
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Endurance is patience concentrated.
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A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.
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Ill-health, of body or of mind, is defeat. Health alone is victory. Let all men, if they can manage it, contrive to be healthy!
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I want to meet my God awake.
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The great law of culture is, Let each become all that he was created capable of being expand, if possible, to his full growth resisting all impediments, casting off all foreign, especially all noxious adhesions, and show himself at length in his own shape and stature be these what they may.
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Genuine Work alone, what thou workest faithfully, that is eternal, as the Almighty Founder and World-Builder himself.
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We call it a Society and go about professing openly the totalest separation, isolation. Our life is not a mutual helpfulness but rather, cloaked under due laws-of-war, named fair competition and so forth, it is a mutual hostility.
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The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.
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History is the distillation of rumour.
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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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Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May but at length the season of summer does come.
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