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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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Once turn to practice, error and truth will no longer consort together.
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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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It's a man's sincerity and depth of vision that makes him a poet.
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No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.
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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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Not what I have, but what I do is my kingdom.
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Providence has given to the French the empire of the land, to the English that of the sea, to the Germans that of--the air!
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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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Secrecy is the element of all goodness even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
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Society is founded on hero-worship.
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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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Have a purpose in life, and having it, throw into your work such strength of mind and muscle as God has given you.
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Speech is great, but silence is greater.
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Dishonesty is the raw material not of quacks only, but also in great part dupes.
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Might and right do differ frightfully from hour to hour, but then centuries to try it in, they are found to be identical.
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See deep enough, and you see musically.
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War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle therefore they take boys from one village and another village, stick them into uniforms, equip them with guns, and let them loose like wild beasts against one other.
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A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
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If Hero means sincere man, why may not every one of us be a Hero?
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A witty statesman said, you might prove anything by figures.
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