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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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Philosopher of Chelsea
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Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope this world of his is emphatically the place of hope.
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It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.
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Habit is the deepest law of human nature
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A man lives by believing something.
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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.
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We call that fire of the black thunder-cloud electricity, and lecture learnedly about it, and grind the like of it out of glass and silk: but what is it? What made it? Whence comes it? Whither goes it?
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Statistics, one may hope, will improve gradually, and become good for something. Meanwhile, it is to be feared the crabbed satirist was partly right, as things go: A judicious man, says he, looks at Statistics, not to get knowledge, but to save himself from having ignorance foisted on him.
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Nature is the time-vesture of God that reveals Him to the wise, and hides him from the foolish.
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It is in general more profitable to reckon up our defeats than to boast of our attainments.
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Men are grown mechanical in head and in the heart, as well as in the hand. They have lost faith in individual endeavour, and in natural force of any kind.
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Reform is not pleasant, but grievous no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation.
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Clean undeniable right, clear undeniable might: either of these once ascertained puts an end to battle. All battle is a confused experiment to ascertain one and both of these.
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Good Christian people, here lies for you an inestimable loan take all heed thereof, in all carefulness, employ it: with high recompense, or else with heavy penalty, will it one day be required back.
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Roguery is thought by some to be cunning and laughable: it is neither it is devilish.
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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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Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.
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No violent extreme endures.
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Every human being has a right to hear what other wise human beings have spoken to him. It is one of the Rights of Men a very cruel injustice if you deny it to a man!
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Woe to him, . . . who has no court of appeal against the world's judgment.
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The vulgarity of inanimate things requires time to get accustomed to but living, breathing, bustling, plotting, planning, human vulgarity is a species of moral ipecacuanha, enough to destroy any comfort.
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