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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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Cherish what is dearest while you have it near you, and wait not till it is far away. Blind and deaf that we are oh, think, if thou yet love anybody living, wait not till death sweep down the paltry little dust clouds and dissonances of the moment, and all be made at last so mournfully clear and beautiful, when it is too late.
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For man is not the creature and product of Mechanism but, in a far truer sense, its creator and producer.
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What you see, but can't see over is as good as infinite.
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Universal history, the history of what man has accomplished in this world, is at bottom the History of the Great Men who have worked here.
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The outer passes away the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
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Of all the paths a man could strike into, there is, at any given moment, a best path .. A thing which, here and now, it were of all things wisest for him to do .. To find this path, and walk in it, is the one thing needful for him.
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We have not the love of greatness, but the love of the love of greatness.
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A dandy is a clothes-wearing man--a man whose trade, office, and existence consist in the wearing of clothes. Every faculty of his soul, spirit, person and purse is heroically consecrated to this one object--the wearing of clothes, wisely and well so that, as others dress to live, he lives to dress.
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My books are friends that never fail me.
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Worship is transcendent wonder.
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The archenemy is the arch stupid!
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