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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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No good book or good thing of any kind shows it best face at first. No the most common quality of in a true work of art that has excellence and depth, is that at first sight it produces a certain disappointment.
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History is philosophy teaching by experience.
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In the huge mass of evil as it rolls and swells, there is ever some good working toward deliverance and triumph.
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There is a perennial nobleness, and even sacredness, in work. Were he never so benighted, forgetful of his high calling, there is always hope in a man that actually and earnestly works: in idleness alone there is perpetual despair.
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Without kindness there can be no true joy.
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Perfect ignorance is quiet, perfect knowledge is quiet not so the transition from the former to the latter.
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Intellect is the soul of man, the only immortal part of him.
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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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The lightning spark of thought generated in the solitary mind awakens its likeness in another mind.
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There is often more spiritual force in a proverb than in whole philosophical systems.
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A mind that has seen, and suffered, and done, speaks to us of what it has tried and conquered.
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The Highest Being reveals himself in man.
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Statistics is a science which ought to be honourable, the basis of many most important sciences but it is not to be carried on by steam, this science, any more than others are a wise head is requisite for carrying it on.
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A man lives by believing something.
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Wealth of a man is the number of things which he loves and blesses which he is loved and blessed by.
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The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows. The greatest of faults, I should say is to be conscious of none.
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Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
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The outer passes away the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
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Terror itself, when once grown transcendental, becomes a kind of courage as frost sufficiently intense, according to the poet Milton, will burn.
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Man makes circumstances, and spiritually as well as economically, is the artificer of his own fortune.
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