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A stammering man is never a worthless one. Physiology can tell you why. It is an excess of sensibility to the presence of his fellow creature, that makes him stammer.
Thomas Carlyle
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Thomas Carlyle
Age: 85 †
Born: 1795
Born: December 4
Died: 1881
Died: February 5
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Conclusive facts are inseparable from inconclusive except by a head that already understands and knows.
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Do nothing, only keep agitating, debating and things will destroy themselves.
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It is no very good symptom, either of nations or individuals, that they deal much in vaticination. Happy men are full of the present, for its bounty suffices them and wise men also, for its duties engage them. Our grand business undoubtedly is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what clearly lies at hand.
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Superstition! that horrid incubus which dwelt in darkness, shunning the light, with all its racks, and poison chalices, and foul sleeping draughts, is passing away without return. Religion cannot pass away. The burning of a little straw may hide the stars of the sky but the stars are there and will reappear.
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If you look deep enough you will see music the heart of nature being everywhere music.
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If a book comes from the heart, it will contrive to reach other hearts all art and author-craft are of small amount to that.
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Authors are the vanguard in the march of mind, the intellectual backwoodsmen, reclaiming from the idle wilderness new territories for the thought and activity of their happier brethren.
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The whole past is the procession of the present.
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The press is the fourth estate of the realm.
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Blessed be the God's voice for it is true, and falsehoods have to cease before it!
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In a certain sense all men are historians.
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At worst, is not this an unjust world, full of nothing but beasts of prey, four-footed or two-footed?
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