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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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Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the architect of circumstance.
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Great men are the modelers, patterns, and in a wide sense creators, of whatsoever the general mass of men contrived to do and attain.
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A battle is a terrible conjugation of the verb to kill: I kill, thou killest, he kills, we kill, they kill, all kill.
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Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
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The world is an old woman, and mistakes any gilt farthing for a gold coin whereby being often cheated, she will thenceforth trust nothing but the common copper.
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Every noble work is at first impossible.
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Blessed be the God's voice for it is true, and falsehoods have to cease before it!
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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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Wise man was he who counselled that speculation should have free course, and look fearlessly towards all the thirty-two points of the compass, whithersoever and howsoever it listed.
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Conclusive facts are inseparable from inconclusive except by a head that already understands and knows.
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A vein of poetry exists in the hearts of all men.
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A witty statesman said, you might prove anything by figures.
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There is something in man which your science cannot satisfy.
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A very sea of thought neither calm nor clear, if you will, yet wherein the toughest pearl-diver may dive to his utmost depth, and return not only with sea-wreck but with true orients.
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persons, with big wigs many of them and austere aspect, whom I take to be Professors of the Dismal Science… Coining “Dismal Science” as a nickname for Political Economy
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The coldest word was once a glowing new metaphor.
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A man perfects himself by working.
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This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.
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Pin your faith to no ones sleeves, haven't you two eyes of your own.
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Perfect ignorance is quiet, perfect knowledge is quiet not so the transition from the former to the latter.
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