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Books are a triviality. Life alone is great.
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 can be no acting or doing of any kind till it be recognized that there is a thing to be done the thing once recognized, doing in a thousand shapes becomes possible.
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Without kindness there can be no true joy.
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What a wretched thing is all fame! A renown of the highest sort endures, say, for two thousand years. And then? Why, then, a fathomless eternity swallows it. Work for eternity not the meagre rhetorical eternity of the periodical critics, but for the real eternity wherein dwelleth the Divine.
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Affectation is the product of falsehood.
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History is the essence of innumerable biographies.
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A noble book! all men's book!
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What I loved in the man was his health, his unity with himself all people and all things seemed to find their quite peaceable adjustment with him, not a proud domineering one, as after doubtful contest, but a spontaneous-looking peaceable, even humble one.
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Scarcely two hundred years back can Fame recollect articulately at all and there she but maunders and mumbles.
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The fine arts once divorcing themselves from truth are quite certain to fall mad, if they do not die.
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Professors of the Dismal Science, I perceive the length of your tether is now pretty well run and I must request you to talk a little lower in the future.
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Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity speech is shallow as Time.
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All men, if they work not as in the great taskmaster's eye, will work wrong, and work unhappily for themselves and for you.
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The Ideal is in thyself, the impediments too is in thyself.
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No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.
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A stammering man is never a worthless one. Physiology can tell you why. It is an excess of sensibility to the presence of his fellow creature, that makes him stammer.
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One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO.
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Statistics is a science which ought to be honourable, the basis of many most important sciences but it is not to be carried on by steam, this science, any more than others are a wise head is requisite for carrying it on.
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To be true is manly, chivalrous, Christian to be false is mean, cowardly, devilish.
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The Present is the living sum-total of the whole Past.
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A judicious man looks at Statistics, not to get knowledge, but to save himself from having ignorance foisted 'on him.
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