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Thomas Carlyle
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Thomas Carlyle
Age: 85 †
Born: 1795
Born: December 4
Died: 1881
Died: February 5
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Lord Bacon could as easily have created the planets as he could have written Hamlet.
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Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May but at length the season of summer does come.
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The depth of our despair measures what capability and height of claim we have to hope.
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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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The press is the fourth estate of the realm.
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The best lesson which we get from the tragedy of Karbala is that Husain and his companions were rigid believers in God. They illustrated that the numerical superiority does not count when it comes to the truth and the falsehood. The victory of Husain, despite his minority, marvels me!
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The Highest Being reveals himself in man.
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Eternity looks grander and kinder if time grow meaner and more hostile.
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Thought is the parent of the deed.
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In books lies the soul of the whole Past Time the articulate audible voice of the Past, when the body and material substance of it has altogether vanished like a dream.
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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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O Time! Time! how it brings forth and devours! And the roaring flood of existence rushes on forever similar, forever changing!
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Caution is the lower story of prudence.
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If Hero means sincere man, why may not every one of us be a Hero?
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The soul gives unity to what it looks at with love.
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History is the new poetry.
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History is the distillation of rumour.
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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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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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Perfect ignorance is quiet, perfect knowledge is quiet not so the transition from the former to the latter.
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