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We have not read an author till we have seen his object, whatever it may be, as he saw it.
Thomas Carlyle
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Thomas Carlyle
Age: 85 †
Born: 1795
Born: December 4
Died: 1881
Died: February 5
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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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Conclusive facts are inseparable from inconclusive except by a head that already understands and knows.
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Terror itself, when once grown transcendental, becomes a kind of courage as frost sufficiently intense, according to the poet Milton, will burn.
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All work of man is as the swimmer's: a vast ocean threatens to devour him if he front it not bravely, it will keep its word.
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A battle is a terrible conjugation of the verb to kill: I kill, thou killest, he kills, we kill, they kill, all kill.
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Blessed be the God's voice for it is true, and falsehoods have to cease before it!
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A man perfects himself by working.
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Endurance is patience concentrated.
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I have seen gleams in the face and eyes of the man that have let you look into a higher country.
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History is a great dust heap.
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Cherish what is dearest while you have it near you, and wait not till it is far away. Blind and deaf that we are oh, think, if thou yet love anybody living, wait not till death sweep down the paltry little dust clouds and dissonances of the moment, and all be made at last so mournfully clear and beautiful, when it is too late.
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When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent.
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Reform, like charity, must begin at home.
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Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can.
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