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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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Philosopher of Chelsea
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A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.
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If you look deep enough you will see music the heart of nature being everywhere music.
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They wrong man greatly who say he is to be seduced by ease. Difficulty, abnegation, martyrdom, death are the allurements that act on the heart of man.
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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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We call that fire of the black thunder-cloud electricity, and lecture learnedly about it, and grind the like of it out of glass and silk: but what is it? What made it? Whence comes it? Whither goes it?
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A background of wrath, which can be stirred up to the murderous infernal pitch, does lie in every man.
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Leaders: Captains of industry.
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There is so much data available to us, but most data won't help us succeed.
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Just in ratio as knowledge increases, faith diminishes.
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