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The authentic insight and experience of any human soul, were it but insight and experience in hewing of wood and drawing of water, is real knowledge, a real possession and acquirement.
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 public is anold woman.Let her maunderand mumble.
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Macaulay is well for awhile, but one wouldn't live under Niagara.
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Nature is the time-vesture of God that reveals Him to the wise, and hides him from the foolish.
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A thought once awakened does not again slumber.
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In every object there is inexhaustible meaning the eye sees in it what the eye brings means of seeing.
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If Hero means sincere man, why may not every one of us be a Hero?
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