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He that has a secret should not only hide it, but hide that he has it to hide.
Thomas Carlyle
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Thomas Carlyle
Age: 85 †
Born: 1795
Born: December 4
Died: 1881
Died: February 5
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A poor creature who has said or done nothing worth a serious man taking the trouble of remembering.
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Terror itself, when once grown transcendental, becomes a kind of courage as frost sufficiently intense, according to the poet Milton, will burn.
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Necessity dispenseth with decorum.
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To the mean eye all things are trivial, as certainly as to the jaundiced they are yellow.
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Love is ever the beginning of knowledge as fire is of light.
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After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books.
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A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
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