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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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In the poorest cottage are Books: is one Book, wherein for several thousands of years the spirit of man has found light, and nourishment, and an interpreting response to whatever is Deepest in him.
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Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
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A false man found a religion? Why, a false man cannot build a brick house!
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Cash-payment never was, or could except for a few years be, the union-bond of man to man. Cash never yet paid one man fully his deserts to another nor could it, nor can it, now or henceforth to the end of the world.
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Force, force, everywhere force we ourselves a mysterious force in the centre of that. There is not a leaf rotting on the highway but has Force in it: how else could it rot? [As used in his time, by the word force, Carlyle means energy.]
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To a shower of gold most things are penetrable.
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Love is the only game that is not called on account of darkness.
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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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Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere.
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I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
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Out of the lowest depths there is a path to the loftiest heights.
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It is a mathematical fact that the casting of this pebble from my hand alters the centre of gravity of the universe.
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Thought, true labor of any kind, highest virtue itself, is it not the daughter of Pain?
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Obedience is our universal duty and destiny wherein whoso will not bend must break too early and too thoroughly we cannot be trained to know that would, in this world of ours, is a mere zero to should, and for most part as the smallest of fractions even to shall.
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Scarcely two hundred years back can Fame recollect articulately at all and there she but maunders and mumbles.
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Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom.
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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 a man like light, it can give little or nothing, but at most may show what is given.
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Without kindness there can be no true joy.
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