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No age seemed the age of romance to itself.
Thomas Carlyle
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Thomas Carlyle
Age: 85 †
Born: 1795
Born: December 4
Died: 1881
Died: February 5
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Man makes circumstances, and spiritually as well as economically, is the artificer of his own fortune.
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Lord Bacon could as easily have created the planets as he could have written Hamlet.
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Misery which, through long ages, had no spokesman, no helper, will now be its own helper and speak for itself.
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If those gentlemen would let me alone I should be much obliged to them. I would say, as Shakespeare would say... Sweet Friend, for Jesus sake forbear.
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Nature, after all, is still the grand agent in making poets.
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There is often more spiritual force in a proverb than in whole philosophical systems.
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The mystery of a person, indeed, is ever divine to him that has a sense for the godlike.
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Have not I myself known five hundred living soldiers sabred into crows' meat for a piece of glazed cotton, which they call their flag which had you sold it at any market-cross, would not have brought above three groschen?
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A fair day's wage for a fair day's work: it is as just a demand as governed men ever made of governing. It is the everlasting right of man.
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Laws themselves, political Constitutions, are not our Life but only the house wherein our Life is led.
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