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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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Cherish what is dearest while you have it near you, and wait not till it is far away. Blind and deaf that we are oh, think, if thou yet love anybody living, wait not till death sweep down the paltry little dust clouds and dissonances of the moment, and all be made at last so mournfully clear and beautiful, when it is too late.
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The highest ensign that men ever met and embraced under, the Cross itself, had no meaning save an accidental extrinsic one.
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History is the new poetry.
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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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Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful yet ever needful and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.
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There is so much data available to us, but most data won't help us succeed.
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Science has done much for us but it is a poor science that would hide from us the great deep sacred infinitude of Nescience, on which all science swims as a mere superficial film.
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Once turn to practice, error and truth will no longer consort together.
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The great soul of this world is just.
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Skepticism . . . is not intellectual only it is moral also, a chronic atrophy and disease of the whole soul.
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They only are wise who know that they know nothing.
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Thought will not work except in silence.
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Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.
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It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.
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In this world there is one godlike thing, the essence of all that was or ever will be of godlike in this world: the veneration done to Human Worth by the hearts of men.
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Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.
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Worship of a hero is transcendent admiration of a great man.
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