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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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There is a perennial nobleness, and even sacredness, in work. Were he never so benighted, forgetful of his high calling, there is always hope in a man that actually and earnestly works: in idleness alone there is perpetual despair.
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We do everything by custom, even believe by it our very axioms, let us boast of free-thinking as we may, are oftenest simply such beliefs as we have never heard questioned.
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In our wide world there is but one altogether fatal personage, the dunce,--he that speaks irrationally, that sees not, and yet thinks he sees.
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Every noble crown is, and on Earth will forever be, a crown of thorns.
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Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such it is an accident, not a property of man.
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The English are a dumb people. They can do great acts, but not describe them.
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