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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
Essayist
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Philosopher of Chelsea
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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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Happy season of childhood! Kind Nature, that art to all a bountiful mother that visitest the poor man's hut With auroral radiance and for thy nursling hast provided a soft swathing of love and infinite hope wherein he waxes and slumbers, danced round by sweetest dreams!
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Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being.
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Oblivion is the dark page, whereon Memory writes her light-beam characters, and makes them legible were it all light, nothing could be read there, any more than if it were all darkness.
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Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with.
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Nature, after all, is still the grand agent in making poets.
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Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist.
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The aristocracy of feudal parchment has passed away with a mighty rushing, and now, by a natural course, we arrive at aristocracy of the money-bag.
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The true eye for talent presupposes the true reverence for it.
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Blessed be the God's voice for it is true, and falsehoods have to cease before it!
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Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.
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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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The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against disbelief
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Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
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The true Sovereign of the world, who moulds the world like soft wax, according to his pleasure, is he who lovingly sees into the world.
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What this country needs is a man who knows God other than by heresay.
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