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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 meaning of song goes deep. Who in logical words can explain the effect music has on us? A kind of inarticulate, unfathomable speech, which leads us to the edge of the infinite, and lets us for a moment gaze into that!
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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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Out of the lowest depths there is a path to the loftiest heights.
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Love is the only game that is not called on account of darkness.
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The scandalous bronze-lacquer age of hungry animalisms, spiritual impotences, and mendacities, will have to run its course, till the pit follow it.
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Rest is a fine medicine. Let your stomachs rest, ye dyspeptics let your brain rest, you wearied and worried people of business let your limbs rest, ye children of toil!
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It is a mathematical fact that the casting of this pebble from my hand alters the centre of gravity of the universe.
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