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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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The great silent man! Looking round on the noisy inanity of the world,--words with little meaning, actions with little worth,--one loves to reflect on the great Empire of Silence.
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A man--be the heavens ever praised!--is sufficient for himself.
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Dishonesty is the raw material not of quacks only, but also in great part dupes.
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Universal history, the history of what man has accomplished in this world, is at bottom the History of the Great Men who have worked here.
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Thought, true labor of any kind, highest virtue itself, is it not the daughter of Pain?
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Skepticism . . . is not intellectual only it is moral also, a chronic atrophy and disease of the whole soul.
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Naps are a way of traveling painlessly through time into the future.
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Every man has a coward and hero in his soul.
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It is well said, in every sense, that a man's religion is the chief fact with regard to him.
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A stammering man is never a worthless one. Physiology can tell you why. It is an excess of sensibility to the presence of his fellow creature, that makes him stammer.
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A force as of madness in the hands of reason has done all that was ever done in the world.
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Time is the silent, never-resting thing ... rolling, rushing on, swift, silent, like an all-embracing oceantide, on which we and all the universe swim.
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Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.
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A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.
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All history . . . is an inarticulate Bible.
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No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.
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Of all your troubles, great and small, the greatest are the ones that don't happen at all.
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