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The archenemy is the arch stupid!
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 always hope in a man that actually and earnestly works: in Idleness alone is there perpetual despair.
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The crash of the whole solar and stellar systems could only kill you once.
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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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Statistics, one may hope, will improve gradually, and become good for something. Meanwhile, it is to be feared the crabbed satirist was partly right, as things go: A judicious man, says he, looks at Statistics, not to get knowledge, but to save himself from having ignorance foisted on him.
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The situation that has not its duty, its ideal, was never yet occupied by man. Yes, here, in this poor, miserable, hampered, despicable actual, wherein thou even now standest, here or nowhere is thy ideal work it out therefrom, and, working, believe, live, be free. Fool! the ideal is in thyself.
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Heroes have gone out quacks have come in the reign of quacks has not ended with the nineteenth century. The sceptre is held with a firmer grasp the empire has a wider boundary. We are all the slaves of quackery in one shape or another. Indeed, one portion of our being is always playing the successful quack to the other.
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The word of Mohammad is a voice direct from nature's own heart - all else is wind in comparison.
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Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope this world of his is emphatically the place of hope.
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The dead are all holy, even they that were base and wicked while alive. Their baseness and wickedness was not they, was but the heavy and unmanageable environment that lay round them.
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What an enormous magnifier is tradition! How a thing grows in the human memory and in the human imagination, when love, worship, and all that lies in the human heart, is there to encourage it
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God Almighty never created a man half as wise as he looks.
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Does not every true man feel that he is himself made higher by doing reverence to what is really above him?
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A man ought to inquire and find out what he really and truly has an appetite for what suits his constitution and that, doctors tell him, is the very thing he ought to have in general. And so with books.
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Providence has given to the French the empire of the land, to the English that of the sea, to the Germans that of--the air!
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Be not a slave of words.
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I want to meet my God awake.
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A man--be the heavens ever praised!--is sufficient for himself.
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No man lives without jostling and being jostled in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.
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Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, altogether past calculation its powers of endurance.
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Blessed is he who has found his work let him ask no other blessedness.
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