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What an enormous magnifier is tradition! How a thing grows in the human memory and in the human imagination, when love, worship, and all that lies in the human heart, is there to encourage it
Thomas Carlyle
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Thomas Carlyle
Age: 85 †
Born: 1795
Born: December 4
Died: 1881
Died: February 5
Essayist
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Philosopher of Chelsea
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Oblivion is the dark page, whereon Memory writes her light-beam characters, and makes them legible were it all light, nothing could be read there, any more than if it were all darkness.
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I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
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The stifled hum of midnight, when traffic has lain down to rest, and the chariot wheels of Vanity, still rolling here and there through distant streets, are bearing her to halls roofed in and lighted to the due pitch for her and only vice and misery, to prowl or to moan like night birds, are abroad.
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All work of man is as the swimmer's: a vast ocean threatens to devour him if he front it not bravely, it will keep its word.
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Pin your faith to no ones sleeves, haven't you two eyes of your own.
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No good book or good thing of any kind shows it best face at first. No the most common quality of in a true work of art that has excellence and depth, is that at first sight it produces a certain disappointment.
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I want to meet my God awake.
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The Orator persuades and carries all with him, he knows not how the Rhetorician can prove that he ought to have persuaded and carried all with him.
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My books are friends that never fail me.
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Language is called the garment of thought: however, it should rather be, language is the flesh-garment, the body, of thought.
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It's a man's sincerity and depth of vision that makes him a poet.
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The dead are all holy, even they that were base and wicked while alive. Their baseness and wickedness was not they, was but the heavy and unmanageable environment that lay round them.
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