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Hardened round us, encasing wholly every notion we form is a wrapping of traditions, hearsay's, and mere words.
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 outer passes away the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
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There must be a new world if there is to be any world at all!... These days of universal death must be days of universal new birth, if the ruin is not to be total and final! It is Time to make the dullest man consider and ask himself, Whence he came? Whither he is bound?
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Love not Pleasure love God.
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Providence has given to the French the empire of the land, to the English that of the sea, to the Germans that of--the air!
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The archenemy is the arch stupid!
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The coldest word was once a glowing new metaphor.
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