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Friendship, in the old heroic sense of that term, no longer exists. It is in reality no longer expected or recognized as a virtue among men.
Thomas Carlyle
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Thomas Carlyle
Age: 85 †
Born: 1795
Born: December 4
Died: 1881
Died: February 5
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That a Parliament, especially a Parliament with Newspaper Reporters firmly established in it, is an entity which by its very nature cannot do work, but can do talk only.
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The English are a dumb people. They can do great acts, but not describe them.
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What this country needs is a man who knows God other than by heresay.
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For man is not the creature and product of Mechanism but, in a far truer sense, its creator and producer.
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The aristocracy of feudal parchment has passed away with a mighty rushing, and now, by a natural course, we arrive at aristocracy of the money-bag.
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Every noble crown is, and on Earth will forever be, a crown of thorns.
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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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The sincere alone can recognize sincerity.
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The soul gives unity to what it looks at with love.
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The outer passes away the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
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In books lies the soul of the whole Past Time the articulate audible voice of the Past, when the body and material substance of it has altogether vanished like a dream.
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What I loved in the man was his health, his unity with himself all people and all things seemed to find their quite peaceable adjustment with him, not a proud domineering one, as after doubtful contest, but a spontaneous-looking peaceable, even humble one.
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No man sees far, most see no farther than their noses.
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