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Thomas Carlyle
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Thomas Carlyle
Age: 85 †
Born: 1795
Born: December 4
Died: 1881
Died: February 5
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The Ideal is in thyself, the impediments too is in thyself.
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In a symbol there is concealment and yet revelation: here therefore, by Silence and by Speech acting together, comes a double significance.
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Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.
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He is wise who can instruct us and assist us in the business of virtuous living.
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In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment.
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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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Not what I have, but what I do is my kingdom.
Thomas Carlyle
Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.
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Cease to brag to me of America, and its model institutions and constitutions. America, too, will have to strain its energies, crack its sinews, and all but break its heart, as the rest of us have had to do, in thousand-fold wrestle with the Pythons, and mud-demons, before it can become a babitation for the gods.
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The situation that has not its duty, its ideal, was never yet occupied by man. Yes, here, in this poor, miserable, hampered, despicable actual, wherein thou even now standest, here or nowhere is thy ideal work it out therefrom, and, working, believe, live, be free. Fool! the ideal is in thyself.
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Know what thou canst work at, and work at it like a Hercules.
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I want to meet my God awake.
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Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere.
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Nine-tenths of the miseries and vices of mankind proceed from idleness.
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A Fourth Estate, of Able Editors, springs up.
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A good book is the purest essence of a human soul.
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Laws, written, if not on stone tables, yet on the azure of infinitude, in the inner heart of God's creation, certain as life, certain as death, are there, and thou shalt not disobey them.
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'Genius' which means transcendent capacity of taking trouble, first of all.
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Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong.
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Genuine Work alone, what thou workest faithfully, that is eternal, as the Almighty Founder and World-Builder himself.
Thomas Carlyle
