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The depth of our despair measures what capability and height of claim we have to hope.
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 lightning spark of thought generated in the solitary mind awakens its likeness in another mind.
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Every noble crown is, and on Earth will forever be, a crown of thorns.
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An everlasting lodestar, that beams the brighter in the heavens the darker here on earth grows the night.
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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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If those gentlemen would let me alone I should be much obliged to them. I would say, as Shakespeare would say... Sweet Friend, for Jesus sake forbear.
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Of all the paths a man could strike into, there is, at any given moment, a best path .. A thing which, here and now, it were of all things wisest for him to do .. To find this path, and walk in it, is the one thing needful for him.
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Happy season of childhood! Kind Nature, that art to all a bountiful mother that visitest the poor man's hut With auroral radiance and for thy nursling hast provided a soft swathing of love and infinite hope wherein he waxes and slumbers, danced round by sweetest dreams!
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He is wise who can instruct us and assist us in the business of virtuous living.
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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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The goal of yesterday will be our starting-point to-morrow.
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