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No good book or good thing of any kind shows it best face at first. No the most common quality of in a true work of art that has excellence and depth, is that at first sight it produces a certain disappointment.
Thomas Carlyle
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Thomas Carlyle
Age: 85 †
Born: 1795
Born: December 4
Died: 1881
Died: February 5
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Pin your faith to no ones sleeves, haven't you two eyes of your own.
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Music is well said to be the speech of angels in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine. It brings us near to the infinite.
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By nature man hates change seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.
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No country can find eternal peace and comfort where the vote of Judas Iscariot is as good as the vote of the Saviour of mankind.
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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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A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.
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Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than gracefully insists on its own rights.
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A noble book! all men's book!
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What this country needs is a man who knows God other than by heresay.
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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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The outer passes away the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
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Of a truth, men are mystically united: a mystic bond of brotherhood makes all men one.
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Be not a slave of words.
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He is wise who can instruct us and assist us in the business of virtuous living.
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Of all God's creatures, Man alone is poor.
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