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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.
Thomas Carlyle
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Thomas Carlyle
Age: 85 †
Born: 1795
Born: December 4
Died: 1881
Died: February 5
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Pin your faith to no ones sleeves, haven't you two eyes of your own.
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Oblivion is the dark page, whereon Memory writes her light-beam characters, and makes them legible were it all light, nothing could be read there, any more than if it were all darkness.
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Superstition! that horrid incubus which dwelt in darkness, shunning the light, with all its racks, and poison chalices, and foul sleeping draughts, is passing away without return. Religion cannot pass away. The burning of a little straw may hide the stars of the sky but the stars are there and will reappear.
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Blessed be the God's voice for it is true, and falsehoods have to cease before it!
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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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The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self activity.
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The press is the fourth estate of the realm.
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Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being.
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A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.
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Do nothing, only keep agitating, debating and things will destroy themselves.
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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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The true eye for talent presupposes the true reverence for it.
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All great peoples are conservative.
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Hero-worship exists, has existed, and will forever exist, universally, among mankind.
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How great a Possibility, how small a realized Result.
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Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
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There is a majesty and mystery in nature, take her as you will. The essence of poetry comes breathing to a mind that feels from every province of her empire.
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If Hero means sincere man, why may not every one of us be a Hero?
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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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In a certain sense all men are historians.
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