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He that can work is born to be king of something.
Thomas Carlyle
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Thomas Carlyle
Age: 85 †
Born: 1795
Born: December 4
Died: 1881
Died: February 5
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The beginning of all wisdom is to look fixedly on clothes, or even with armed eyesight, till they become transparent.
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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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Nature, after all, is still the grand agent in making poets.
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Obedience is our universal duty and destiny wherein whoso will not bend must break too early and too thoroughly we cannot be trained to know that would, in this world of ours, is a mere zero to should, and for most part as the smallest of fractions even to shall.
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A witty statesman said, you might prove anything by figures.
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Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.
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Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
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What you see, but can't see over is as good as infinite.
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What is nature? Art thou not the living government of God? O Heaven, is it in very deed He then that ever speaks through thee, that lives and loves in thee, that lives and loves in me?
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No good book, or good thing of any sort, shows its best face at first.
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To be true is manly, chivalrous, Christian to be false is mean, cowardly, devilish.
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Of all God's creatures, Man alone is poor.
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Good Christian people, here lies for you an inestimable loan take all heed thereof, in all carefulness, employ it: with high recompense, or else with heavy penalty, will it one day be required back.
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It is not a lucky word, this name impossible no good comes of those who have it so often in their mouths.
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A pygmy standing on the outward crust of this small planet, his far-reaching spirit stretches outward to the infinite, and there alone finds rest.
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Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
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Every noble work is at first impossible.
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Rich as we are in biography, a well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one and there are certainly many more men whose history deserves to be recorded than persons willing and able to record it.
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Every human being has a right to hear what other wise human beings have spoken to him. It is one of the Rights of Men a very cruel injustice if you deny it to a man!
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