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Habit is the deepest law of human nature
Thomas Carlyle
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Thomas Carlyle
Age: 85 †
Born: 1795
Born: December 4
Died: 1881
Died: February 5
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Nature admits no lie.
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The public is anold woman.Let her maunderand mumble.
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The cut of a garment speaks of intellect and talent and the color of temperament and heart.
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It is meritorious to insist on forms religion and all else naturally clothes itself in forms. Everywhere the formed world is the only habitable one.
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Thought will not work except in silence.
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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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The Ideal is in thyself, the impediments too is in thyself.
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Nature is the time-vesture of God that reveals Him to the wise, and hides him from the foolish.
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Heroes, it would seem, exist always and a certain worship of them.
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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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No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.
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Blessed be the God's voice for it is true, and falsehoods have to cease before it!
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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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What, in the devil's name, is the use of respectability, with never so many gigs and silver spoons, if thou inwardly art the pitifulness of all men?
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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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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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All reform except a moral one will prove unavailing.
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Laws, written, if not on stone tables, yet on the azure of infinitude, in the inner heart of God's creation, certain as life, certain as death, are there, and thou shalt not disobey them.
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Happy season of virtuous youth, when shame is still an impassable barrier, and the sacred air-cities of hope have not shrunk into the mean clay hamlets of reality and man, by his nature, is yet infinite and free.
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