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Without kindness there can be no true joy.
Thomas Carlyle
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Thomas Carlyle
Age: 85 †
Born: 1795
Born: December 4
Died: 1881
Died: February 5
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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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The insignificant, the empty, is usually the loud and after the manner of a drum, is louder even because of its emptiness.
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Cherish what is dearest while you have it near you, and wait not till it is far away. Blind and deaf that we are oh, think, if thou yet love anybody living, wait not till death sweep down the paltry little dust clouds and dissonances of the moment, and all be made at last so mournfully clear and beautiful, when it is too late.
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He who cannot withal keep his mind to himself cannot practice any considerable thing whatsoever.
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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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All men, if they work not as in the great taskmaster's eye, will work wrong, and work unhappily for themselves and for you.
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The dead are all holy, even they that were base and wicked while alive. Their baseness and wickedness was not they, was but the heavy and unmanageable environment that lay round them.
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The mystical bond of brotherhood makes all men brothers.
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