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Life is a series of lessons that have to be understood.
Thomas Carlyle
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Thomas Carlyle
Age: 85 †
Born: 1795
Born: December 4
Died: 1881
Died: February 5
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Parliament will train you to talk and above all things to hear, with patience, unlimited quantities of foolish talk.
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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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Time is the silent, never-resting thing ... rolling, rushing on, swift, silent, like an all-embracing oceantide, on which we and all the universe swim.
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Terror itself, when once grown transcendental, becomes a kind of courage as frost sufficiently intense, according to the poet Milton, will burn.
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Do nothing, only keep agitating, debating and things will destroy themselves.
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Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
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Society is founded on hero-worship.
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Every noble crown is, and on Earth will forever be, a crown of thorns.
Thomas Carlyle
We do everything by custom, even believe by it our very axioms, let us boast of free-thinking as we may, are oftenest simply such beliefs as we have never heard questioned.
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A fair day's wages for a fair day's work.
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Naps are a way of traveling painlessly through time into the future.
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The whole past is the procession of the present.
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I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
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Skepticism . . . is not intellectual only it is moral also, a chronic atrophy and disease of the whole soul.
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Why did not somebody teach me the constellations, and make me at home in the starry heavens, which are always overhead, and which I don't half know to this day?
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It is no very good symptom, either of nations or individuals, that they deal much in vaticination. Happy men are full of the present, for its bounty suffices them and wise men also, for its duties engage them. Our grand business undoubtedly is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what clearly lies at hand.
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It is not honest inquiry that makes anarchy but it is error, insincerity, half belief and untruth that make it.
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If a book comes from the heart, it will contrive to reach other hearts all art and author-craft are of small amount to that.
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There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.
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Caution is the lower story of prudence.
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