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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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Love not Pleasure love God.
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Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.
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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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Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.
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Only perhaps in the United States, which alone of countries can do without governing,every man being at least able to live, and move off into the wilderness, let Congress jargon as it will,can such a form of so-called Government continue for any length of time to torment men with the semblance, when the indispensable substance is not there.
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Unity, agreement, is always silent or soft-voiced it is only discord that loudly proclaims itself.
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Wealth of a man is the number of things which he loves and blesses which he is loved and blessed by.
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Neither in tailoring nor in legislating does man proceed by mere accident.
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Professors of the Dismal Science, I perceive the length of your tether is now pretty well run and I must request you to talk a little lower in the future.
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Nature is the time-vesture of God that reveals Him to the wise, and hides him from the foolish.
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Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
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Pin your faith to no ones sleeves, haven't you two eyes of your own.
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If you look deep enough you will see music the heart of nature being everywhere music.
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