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All men, if they work not as in the great taskmaster's eye, will work wrong, and work unhappily for themselves and for you.
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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Speech is too often not the art of concealing thought, but of quite stifling and suspending thought, so that there is none to conceal.
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The stifled hum of midnight, when traffic has lain down to rest, and the chariot wheels of Vanity, still rolling here and there through distant streets, are bearing her to halls roofed in and lighted to the due pitch for her and only vice and misery, to prowl or to moan like night birds, are abroad.
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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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Worship of a hero is transcendent admiration of a great man.
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Scarcely two hundred years back can Fame recollect articulately at all and there she but maunders and mumbles.
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Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
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The choking, sweltering, deadly, and killing rule of no rule the consecration of cupidity and braying of folly, and dim stupidity and baseness, in most of the affairs of men. Slopshirts attainable three-halfpence cheaper by the ruin of living bodies and immortal souls.
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What this country needs is a man who knows God other than by heresay.
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Government is emphatically a machine: to the discontented a taxing machine, to the contented a machine for securing property.
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The dead are all holy, even they that were base and wicked while alive. Their baseness and wickedness was not they, was but the heavy and unmanageable environment that lay round them.
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Heroes have gone out quacks have come in the reign of quacks has not ended with the nineteenth century. The sceptre is held with a firmer grasp the empire has a wider boundary. We are all the slaves of quackery in one shape or another. Indeed, one portion of our being is always playing the successful quack to the other.
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Not what I have, but what I do is my kingdom.
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In a certain sense all men are historians.
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Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.
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