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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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Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.
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Let me have my own way in exactly everything and a sunnier and pleasanter creature does not exist.
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If you look deep enough you will see music the heart of nature being everywhere music.
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In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom we have to say, Like People like Government.
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Thirty millions, mostly fools.
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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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Let one who wants to move and convince others, first be convinced and moved themselves. If a person speaks with genuine earnestness the thoughts, the emotion and the actual condition of their own heart, others will listen because we all are knit together by the tie of sympathy.
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No man sees far, most see no farther than their noses.
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