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The whole past is the procession of the present.
Thomas Carlyle
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Thomas Carlyle
Age: 85 †
Born: 1795
Born: December 4
Died: 1881
Died: February 5
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There is often more spiritual force in a proverb than in whole philosophical systems.
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Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct.
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True friends, like ivy and the wall Both stand together, and together fall.
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The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.
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The choking, sweltering, deadly, and killing rule of no rule the consecration of cupidity and braying of folly, and dim stupidity and baseness, in most of the affairs of men. Slopshirts attainable three-halfpence cheaper by the ruin of living bodies and immortal souls.
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What you see, but can't see over is as good as infinite.
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The Highest Being reveals himself in man.
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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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If there be not a religious element in the relations of men, such relations are miserable and doomed to ruin.
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He who cannot withal keep his mind to himself cannot practice any considerable thing whatsoever.
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No country can find eternal peace and comfort where the vote of Judas Iscariot is as good as the vote of the Saviour of mankind.
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In the poorest cottage are Books: is one Book, wherein for several thousands of years the spirit of man has found light, and nourishment, and an interpreting response to whatever is Deepest in him.
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Show me the man you honor I know by that symptom, better than by any other, what kind of man you yourself are. For you show me there what your ideal of manhood is what kind of man you long inexpressibly to be.
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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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Hero-worship exists, has existed, and will forever exist, universally, among mankind.
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Society is founded on hero-worship.
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In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment.
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Of all God's creatures, Man alone is poor.
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