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Variety is the condition of harmony.
Thomas Carlyle
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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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A thought once awakened does not again slumber.
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Wonderful Force of Public Opinion! We must act and walk in all points as it prescribes follow the traffic it bids us, realize the sum of money, the degree of influence it expects of us, or we shall be lightly esteemed certain mouthfuls of articulate wind will be blown at us, and this what mortal courage can front?
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Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together that at length they may emerge, full-formed and majestic, into the daylight of Life, which they are thenceforth to rule.
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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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A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
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Let a man try faithfully, manfully to be right he will grow daily more and more right. It is at bottom the condition on which all men have to cultivate themselves.
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Cherish what is dearest while you have it near you, and wait not till it is far away. Blind and deaf that we are oh, think, if thou yet love anybody living, wait not till death sweep down the paltry little dust clouds and dissonances of the moment, and all be made at last so mournfully clear and beautiful, when it is too late.
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In the true Literary Man there is thus ever, acknowledged or not by the world, a sacredness: he is the light of the world the world's Priest -- guiding it, like a sacred Pillar of Fire, in its dark pilgrimage through the waste of Time.
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Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom.
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Neither in tailoring nor in legislating does man proceed by mere accident.
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A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.
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Parliament will train you to talk and above all things to hear, with patience, unlimited quantities of foolish talk.
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Hero-worship exists, has existed, and will forever exist, universally, among mankind.
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Blessed is he who has found his work let him ask no other blessedness. He has a work, a life-purpose he has found it, and will follow it! How, as a free-flowing channel, dug and torn by noble force through the sour mudswamp of one's existence, like an ever-deepening river there, it runs and flows
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Once turn to practice, error and truth will no longer consort together.
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Lord Bacon could as easily have created the planets as he could have written Hamlet.
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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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One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO.
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