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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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Courtesy is the due of man to man not of suit-of-clothes to suit-of-clothes.
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Perfect ignorance is quiet, perfect knowledge is quiet not so the transition from the former to the latter.
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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 man.
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Not on morality, but on cookery, let us build our stronghold: there brandishing our frying-pan, as censer, let us offer sweet incense to the Devil, and live at ease on the fat things he has provided for his elect!
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Speak not at all, in any wise, till you have somewhat to speak care not for the reward of your speaking, but simply and with undivided mind for the truth of your speaking.
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A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.
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Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
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Roguery is thought by some to be cunning and laughable: it is neither it is devilish.
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Nature admits no lie.
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Macaulay is well for awhile, but one wouldn't live under Niagara.
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The best lesson which we get from the tragedy of Karbala is that Husain and his companions were rigid believers in God. They illustrated that the numerical superiority does not count when it comes to the truth and the falsehood. The victory of Husain, despite his minority, marvels me!
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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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A thought once awakened does not again slumber.
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The goal of yesterday will be our starting-point to-morrow.
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At worst, is not this an unjust world, full of nothing but beasts of prey, four-footed or two-footed?
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Acorns are planted silently by some unnoticed breeze.
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Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It's a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment.
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Man makes circumstances, and spiritually as well as economically, is the artificer of his own fortune.
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Metaphysics is the attempt of the mind to rise above the mind.
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