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A fair day's wages for a fair day's work.
Thomas Carlyle
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Thomas Carlyle
Age: 85 †
Born: 1795
Born: December 4
Died: 1881
Died: February 5
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When we can drain the Ocean into mill-ponds, and bottle up the Force of Gravity, to be sold by retail, in gas jars then may we hope to comprehend the infinitudes of man's soul under formulas of Profit and Loss and rule over this too, as over a patent engine, by checks, and valves, and balances.
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A poor creature who has said or done nothing worth a serious man taking the trouble of remembering.
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Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together that at length they may emerge, full-formed and majestic, into the daylight of Life, which they are thenceforth to rule.
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Thirty millions, mostly fools.
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A background of wrath, which can be stirred up to the murderous infernal pitch, does lie in every man.
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Violence does even justice unjustly.
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Woe to him, . . . who has no court of appeal against the world's judgment.
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Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May but at length the season of summer does come.
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There is so much data available to us, but most data won't help us succeed.
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Doubt of any kind cannot be resolved except by action.
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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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It is in general more profitable to reckon up our defeats than to boast of our attainments.
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The goal of yesterday will be our starting-point to-morrow.
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You can make even a parrot into a learned political economist - all he must learn are the two words supply and demand.
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If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated readings deserves to be read at all.
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The English are a dumb people. They can do great acts, but not describe them.
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Love is the only game that is not called on account of darkness.
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A fair day's wage for a fair day's work: it is as just a demand as governed men ever made of governing. It is the everlasting right of man.
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