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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.
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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Hardened round us, encasing wholly every notion we form is a wrapping of traditions, hearsay's, and mere words.
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Unity, agreement, is always silent or soft-voiced it is only discord that loudly proclaims itself.
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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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Without kindness there can be no true joy.
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Every human being has a right to hear what other wise human beings have spoken to him. It is one of the Rights of Men a very cruel injustice if you deny it to a man!
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When we can drain the Ocean into mill-ponds, and bottle up the Force of Gravity, to be sold by retail, in gas jars then may we hope to comprehend the infinitudes of man's soul under formulas of Profit and Loss and rule over this too, as over a patent engine, by checks, and valves, and balances.
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It is well said, in every sense, that a man's religion is the chief fact with regard to him.
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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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Nature admits no lie.
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Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
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There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.
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