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The greatest event for the world is the arrival of a new and wise person.
Thomas Carlyle
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Thomas Carlyle
Age: 85 †
Born: 1795
Born: December 4
Died: 1881
Died: February 5
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Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can.
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Only perhaps in the United States, which alone of countries can do without governing,every man being at least able to live, and move off into the wilderness, let Congress jargon as it will,can such a form of so-called Government continue for any length of time to torment men with the semblance, when the indispensable substance is not there.
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The latest gospel in this world is, know thy work and do it.
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There is precious instruction to be got by finding we were wrong.
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Speech is great, but silence is greater.
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A man must indeed be a hero to appear such in the eyes of his valet.
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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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Pain was not given thee merely to be miserable under learn from it, turn it to account.
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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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A man cannot make a pair of shoes rightly unless he do it in a devout manner.
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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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May blessings be upon the head of Cadmus, the Phoenicians, or whoever it was that invented books.
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A poor creature who has said or done nothing worth a serious man taking the trouble of remembering.
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Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.
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Oblivion is the dark page, whereon Memory writes her light-beam characters, and makes them legible were it all light, nothing could be read there, any more than if it were all darkness.
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Our grand business undoubtedly is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
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To be true is manly, chivalrous, Christian to be false is mean, cowardly, devilish.
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Great is wisdom infinite is the value of wisdom. It cannot be exaggerated it is the highest achievement of man.
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Experience is the best of school masters, only the school fees are heavy.
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What I loved in the man was his health, his unity with himself all people and all things seemed to find their quite peaceable adjustment with him, not a proud domineering one, as after doubtful contest, but a spontaneous-looking peaceable, even humble one.
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