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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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Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
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Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom.
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Eternity looks grander and kinder if time grow meaner and more hostile.
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Leaders: Captains of industry.
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What is nature? Art thou not the living government of God? O Heaven, is it in very deed He then that ever speaks through thee, that lives and loves in thee, that lives and loves in me?
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Wise man was he who counselled that speculation should have free course, and look fearlessly towards all the thirty-two points of the compass, whithersoever and howsoever it listed.
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Neither had Watt of the Steam engine a heroic origin, any kindred with the princes of this world. The princes of this world were shooting their partridges... While this man with blackened fingers, with grim brow, was searching out, in his workshop, the Fire-secret.
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The Ideal is in thyself, the impediments too is in thyself.
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Cease to brag to me of America, and its model institutions and constitutions. America, too, will have to strain its energies, crack its sinews, and all but break its heart, as the rest of us have had to do, in thousand-fold wrestle with the Pythons, and mud-demons, before it can become a babitation for the gods.
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The leafy blossoming present time springs from the whole past, remembered and unrememberable.
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Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, altogether past calculation its powers of endurance.
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Thought is the parent of the deed.
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The hell of these days is the fear of not getting along, especially of not making money.
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The most unhappy of all men is the man who cannot tell what he is going to do, who has got no work cut-out for him in the world, and does not go into it. For work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind,honest work, which you intend getting done.
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Speech is too often not the art of concealing thought, but of quite stifling and suspending thought, so that there is none to conceal.
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A man cannot make a pair of shoes rightly unless he do it in a devout manner.
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Violence does even justice unjustly.
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Books are a triviality. Life alone is great.
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The great law of culture is, Let each become all that he was created capable of being expand, if possible, to his full growth resisting all impediments, casting off all foreign, especially all noxious adhesions, and show himself at length in his own shape and stature be these what they may.
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