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Thirty millions, mostly fools.
Thomas Carlyle
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Thomas Carlyle
Age: 85 †
Born: 1795
Born: December 4
Died: 1881
Died: February 5
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Philosopher of Chelsea
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Our works are the mirror wherein the spirit first sees its natural lineaments. Hence, too, the folly of that impossible precept, Know theyself till it be translated into this partially possible one, know what thou canst work at.
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He who cannot withal keep his mind to himself cannot practice any considerable thing whatsoever.
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Men are grown mechanical in head and in the heart, as well as in the hand. They have lost faith in individual endeavour, and in natural force of any kind.
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They wrong man greatly who say he is to be seduced by ease. Difficulty, abnegation, martyrdom, death are the allurements that act on the heart of man.
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Hardened round us, encasing wholly every notion we form is a wrapping of traditions, hearsay's, and mere words.
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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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The Persians are called the French of the East we will call the Arabs Oriental Italians. A gifted noble people a people of wildstrong feelings, and of iron restraint over these: the characteristic of noblemindedness, of genius.
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Whose school-hours are all the days and nights of our existence.
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The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self activity.
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Science has done much for us but it is a poor science that would hide from us the great deep sacred infinitude of Nescience, on which all science swims as a mere superficial film.
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Laws themselves, political Constitutions, are not our Life but only the house wherein our Life is led.
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History is philosophy teaching by experience.
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God Almighty never created a man half as wise as he looks.
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It is a mathematical fact that the casting of this pebble from my hand alters the centre of gravity of the universe.
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In the true Literary Man there is thus ever, acknowledged or not by the world, a sacredness: he is the light of the world the world's Priest -- guiding it, like a sacred Pillar of Fire, in its dark pilgrimage through the waste of Time.
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Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
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Evil and good are everywhere, like shadow and substance inseparable (for men) yet not hostile, only opposed.
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The thing is not only to avoid error, but to attain immense masses of truth.
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The first duty of man is that of subduing fear.
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