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A witty statesman said, you might prove anything by figures.
Thomas Carlyle
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Thomas Carlyle
Age: 85 †
Born: 1795
Born: December 4
Died: 1881
Died: February 5
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Be a pattern to others, and then all will go well for as a whole city is affected by the licentious passions and vices of great men, so it is likewise reformed by their moderation.
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A man must indeed be a hero to appear such in the eyes of his valet.
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Money, in truth, can do much, but it cannot do all. We must know the province of it, and confine it there, and even spurn it back when it wishes to get farther.
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Heroes, it would seem, exist always and a certain worship of them.
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With union grounded on falsehood and ordering us to speak and act lies, we will not have anything to do. Peace? A brutal lethargy is peaceable the noisome is peaceable. We hope for a living peace, not a dead one!
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Every noble crown is, and on Earth will forever be, a crown of thorns.
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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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Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.
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Music is well said to be the speech of angels in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine. It brings us near to the infinite.
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