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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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A pygmy standing on the outward crust of this small planet, his far-reaching spirit stretches outward to the infinite, and there alone finds rest.
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Our grand business undoubtedly is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
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Shakespeare says, we are creatures that look before and after the more surprising that we do not look around a little, and see what is passing under our very eyes.
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True friends, like ivy and the wall Both stand together, and together fall.
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Statistics, one may hope, will improve gradually, and become good for something. Meanwhile, it is to be feared the crabbed satirist was partly right, as things go: A judicious man, says he, looks at Statistics, not to get knowledge, but to save himself from having ignorance foisted on him.
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What unknown seas of feeling lie in man, and will from time to time break through!
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Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful yet ever needful and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.
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The great silent man! Looking round on the noisy inanity of the world,--words with little meaning, actions with little worth,--one loves to reflect on the great Empire of Silence.
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The Present is the living sum-total of the whole Past.
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Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
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A man must indeed be a hero to appear such in the eyes of his valet.
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Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such: it is an accident, not a property, of a man like light, it can give little or nothing, but at most may show what is given.
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If there be not a religious element in the relations of men, such relations are miserable and doomed to ruin.
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The first sin in our universe was Lucifer's self conceit.
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It is part of my creed that the only poetry is history, could we tell it right.
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It is not honest inquiry that makes anarchy but it is error, insincerity, half belief and untruth that make it.
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Genuine Work alone, what thou workest faithfully, that is eternal, as the Almighty Founder and World-Builder himself.
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The word of Mohammad is a voice direct from nature's own heart - all else is wind in comparison.
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Thirty millions, mostly fools.
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A mind that has seen, and suffered, and done, speaks to us of what it has tried and conquered.
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