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The greatest mistake is to imagine that we never err.
Thomas Carlyle
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Thomas Carlyle
Age: 85 †
Born: 1795
Born: December 4
Died: 1881
Died: February 5
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Philosopher of Chelsea
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I want to meet my God awake.
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Pin your faith to no ones sleeves, haven't you two eyes of your own.
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I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.
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The lightning spark of thought generated in the solitary mind awakens its likeness in another mind.
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Dishonesty is the raw material not of quacks only, but also in great part dupes.
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