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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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The situation that has not its duty, its ideal, was never yet occupied by man. Yes, here, in this poor, miserable, hampered, despicable actual, wherein thou even now standest, here or nowhere is thy ideal work it out therefrom, and, working, believe, live, be free. Fool! the ideal is in thyself.
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Be not a slave of words.
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Language is called the garment of thought: however, it should rather be, language is the flesh-garment, the body, of thought.
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The graceful minuet-dance of fancy must give place to the toilsome, thorny pilgrimage of understanding. On the transition from the age of romance to that of science.
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A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.
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If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.
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A good book is the purest essence of a human soul.
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The whole past is the procession of the present.
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In idleness there is a perpetual despair.
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Lord Bacon could as easily have created the planets as he could have written Hamlet.
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A man ought to inquire and find out what he really and truly has an appetite for what suits his constitution and that, doctors tell him, is the very thing he ought to have in general. And so with books.
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Nature admits no lie.
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If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated readings deserves to be read at all.
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It is a fact which escapes no one, that, generally speaking, whoso is acquainted with his worth has but a little stock to cultivate acquaintance with.
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Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May but at length the season of summer does come.
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If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it.
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Speech is too often not the art of concealing thought, but of quite stifling and suspending thought, so that there is none to conceal.
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