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The Ideal is in thyself, the impediments too is in thyself.
Thomas Carlyle
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Thomas Carlyle
Age: 85 †
Born: 1795
Born: December 4
Died: 1881
Died: February 5
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Philosopher of Chelsea
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A very sea of thought neither calm nor clear, if you will, yet wherein the toughest pearl-diver may dive to his utmost depth, and return not only with sea-wreck but with true orients.
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Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
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Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.
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Blessed is he who has found his work let him ask no other blessedness. He has a work, a life-purpose he has found it, and will follow it! How, as a free-flowing channel, dug and torn by noble force through the sour mudswamp of one's existence, like an ever-deepening river there, it runs and flows
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The public is anold woman.Let her maunderand mumble.
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The end of Man is an Action, and not a Thought, though it were the noblest?
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The most unhappy of all men is the man who cannot tell what he is going to do, who has got no work cut-out for him in the world, and does not go into it. For work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind,honest work, which you intend getting done.
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A fair day's wages for a fair day's work.
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History is philosophy teaching by experience.
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He who cannot withal keep his mind to himself cannot practice any considerable thing whatsoever.
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Rest is for the dead.
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No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.
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Neither had Watt of the Steam engine a heroic origin, any kindred with the princes of this world. The princes of this world were shooting their partridges... While this man with blackened fingers, with grim brow, was searching out, in his workshop, the Fire-secret.
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Cease to brag to me of America, and its model institutions and constitutions. America, too, will have to strain its energies, crack its sinews, and all but break its heart, as the rest of us have had to do, in thousand-fold wrestle with the Pythons, and mud-demons, before it can become a babitation for the gods.
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The eye sees what it brings the power to see.
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Unity, agreement, is always silent or soft-voiced it is only discord that loudly proclaims itself.
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