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The Present is the living sum-total of the whole Past.

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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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Books are a triviality. Life alone is great.
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The whole past is the procession of the present.
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The outer passes away the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
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No man at bottom means injustice it is always for some obscure distorted image of a right that he contends: an obscure image diffracted, exaggerated, in the wonderfulest way by natural dimness and selfishness getting tenfold more diffracted by exasperation of contest, till at length it become all but irrecognis-able.
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The soul gives unity to what it looks at with love.
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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.
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The most unhappy of all men is the man who cannot tell what he is going to do, who has got no work cut-out for him in the world, and does not go into it. For work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind,honest work, which you intend getting done.
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A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.
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No good book, or good thing of any sort, shows its best face at first.
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If there be no enemy there's no fight. If no fight, no victory and if no victory there is no crown.
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Conclusive facts are inseparable from inconclusive except by a head that already understands and knows.
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Cease to brag to me of America, and its model institutions and constitutions. America, too, will have to strain its energies, crack its sinews, and all but break its heart, as the rest of us have had to do, in thousand-fold wrestle with the Pythons, and mud-demons, before it can become a babitation for the gods.
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The goal of yesterday will be our starting-point to-morrow.
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A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.
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Experience is the best of school masters, only the school fees are heavy.
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Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.
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A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.
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