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Success in life, in anything, depends upon the number of persons that one can make himself agreeable to.
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 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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A word spoken in season, at the right moment is the mother of ages.
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Before philosophy can teach by Experience, the Philosophy has to be in readiness, the Experience must be gathered and intelligibly recorded.
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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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He that has a secret should not only hide it, but hide that he has it to hide.
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Blessed is he who has found his work let him ask no other blessedness.
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Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.
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If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.
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The great soul of this world is just.
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Blessed is he who has found his work let him ask no other blessedness. He has a work, a Life-purpose... Get your happiness out of your work or you will never know what real happiness is... Even in the meanest sorts of Labour, the whole soul of a man is composed into a kind of real harmony the instant he sets himself to work!
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A man--be the heavens ever praised!--is sufficient for himself.
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A force as of madness in the hands of reason has done all that was ever done in the world.
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Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
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