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A force as of madness in the hands of reason has done all that was ever done in the world.
Thomas Carlyle
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Thomas Carlyle
Age: 85 †
Born: 1795
Born: December 4
Died: 1881
Died: February 5
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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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We have not the love of greatness, but the love of the love of greatness.
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Providence has given to the French the empire of the land, to the English that of the sea, to the Germans that of--the air!
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