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A thought once awakened does not again slumber.
Thomas Carlyle
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Thomas Carlyle
Age: 85 †
Born: 1795
Born: December 4
Died: 1881
Died: February 5
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The coldest word was once a glowing new metaphor.
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The dead are all holy, even they that were base and wicked while alive. Their baseness and wickedness was not they, was but the heavy and unmanageable environment that lay round them.
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Do nothing, only keep agitating, debating and things will destroy themselves.
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Nothing that was worthy in the past departs no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.
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Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
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Society is founded on hero-worship.
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Happy season of childhood! Kind Nature, that art to all a bountiful mother that visitest the poor man's hut With auroral radiance and for thy nursling hast provided a soft swathing of love and infinite hope wherein he waxes and slumbers, danced round by sweetest dreams!
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Man makes circumstances, and spiritually as well as economically, is the artificer of his own fortune.
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Every poet, be his outward lot what it may, finds himself born in the midst of prose h e has to struggle from the littleness and obstruction of an actual world into the freedom and infinitude of an ideal.
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Neither in tailoring nor in legislating does man proceed by mere accident.
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Government is emphatically a machine: to the discontented a taxing machine, to the contented a machine for securing property.
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Great men are the modelers, patterns, and in a wide sense creators, of whatsoever the general mass of men contrived to do and attain.
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Let him who would move and convince others, be first moved and convinced himself.
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Democracy is, by the nature of it, a self-canceling business: and gives in the long run a net result of zero.
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The great silent man! Looking round on the noisy inanity of the world,--words with little meaning, actions with little worth,--one loves to reflect on the great Empire of Silence.
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And yet without labour there were no ease, no rest, so much as conceivable.
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The first duty of man is to conquer fear he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.
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He that works and does some Poem, not he that merely says one, is worthy of the name of Poet.
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A noble book! all men's book!
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