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Know what thou canst work at, and work at it like a Hercules.
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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Out of Eternity the new day is born Into Eternity at night will return.
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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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An everlasting lodestar, that beams the brighter in the heavens the darker here on earth grows the night.
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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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I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.
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One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO.
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Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
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I came hither [Craigenputtoch] solely with the design to simplify my way of life and to secure the independence through which I could be enabled to remain true to myself.
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A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.
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A man ought to inquire and find out what he really and truly has an appetite for what suits his constitution and that, doctors tell him, is the very thing he ought to have in general. And so with books.
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Universal history, the history of what man has accomplished in this world, is at bottom the History of the Great Men who have worked here.
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Democracy means despair of finding any heroes to govern you, and contented putting up with the want of them.
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No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, could ever compel the soul of man to believe or to disbelieve: it is his own indefeasible light, that judgment of his he will reign and believe there by the grace of God alone!
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The great soul of this world is just.
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History is the essence of innumerable biographies.
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What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
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He that has a secret should not only hide it, but hide that he has it to hide.
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The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.
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There is often more spiritual force in a proverb than in whole philosophical systems.
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