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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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Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.
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I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
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Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
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Show me the man you honor I know by that symptom, better than by any other, what kind of man you yourself are. For you show me there what your ideal of manhood is what kind of man you long inexpressibly to be.
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Eternity looks grander and kinder if time grow meaner and more hostile.
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Democracy means despair of finding any heroes to govern you, and contented putting up with the want of them.
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It is well said, in every sense, that a man's religion is the chief fact with regard to him.
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Unity, agreement, is always silent or soft-voiced it is only discord that loudly proclaims itself.
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There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.
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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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No violent extreme endures.
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Youth is to all the glad season of life but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.
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If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it.
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Thought, true labor of any kind, highest virtue itself, is it not the daughter of Pain?
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So much of truth, only under an ancient obsolete vesture, but the spirit of it still true, do I find in the Paganism of old nations. Nature is still divine, the revelation of the workings of God the Hero is still worshipable: this, under poor cramped incipient forms, is what all Pagan religions have struggled, as they could, to set forth.
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To say that we have a clear conscience is to utter a solecism had we never sinned we should have had no conscience. Were defeat unknown, neither would victory be celebrated by songs of triumph.
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Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
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Midas-eared Mammonism, double-barrelled Dilettantism, and their thousand adjuncts and corollaries, are not the Law by which God Almighty has appointed this His universe to go.
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Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
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Great men are the modelers, patterns, and in a wide sense creators, of whatsoever the general mass of men contrived to do and attain.
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