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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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Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
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There is always hope in a man that actually and earnestly works: in Idleness alone is there perpetual despair.
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Speech that leads not to action, still more that hinders it, is a nuisance on the earth.
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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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Misery which, through long ages, had no spokesman, no helper, will now be its own helper and speak for itself.
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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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Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity speech is shallow as Time.
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If you look deep enough you will see music the heart of nature being everywhere music.
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In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment.
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Earnestness alone makes life eternity.
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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.
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Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.
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What a wretched thing is all fame! A renown of the highest sort endures, say, for two thousand years. And then? Why, then, a fathomless eternity swallows it. Work for eternity not the meagre rhetorical eternity of the periodical critics, but for the real eternity wherein dwelleth the Divine.
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Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being.
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So much of truth, only under an ancient obsolete vesture, but the spirit of it still true, do I find in the Paganism of old nations. Nature is still divine, the revelation of the workings of God the Hero is still worshipable: this, under poor cramped incipient forms, is what all Pagan religions have struggled, as they could, to set forth.
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Obedience is our universal duty and destiny wherein whoso will not bend must break too early and too thoroughly we cannot be trained to know that would, in this world of ours, is a mere zero to should, and for most part as the smallest of fractions even to shall.
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Happy the People whose Annals are blank in History Books!
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