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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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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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Every noble crown is, and on Earth will forever be, a crown of thorns.
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The first sin in our universe was Lucifer's self conceit.
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What are your Axioms, and Categories, and Systems, and Aphorisms? Words, words.... Be not the slave of Words.
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The outer passes away the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
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Philosophy dwells aloft in the Temple of Science, the divinity of its inmost shrine her dictates descend among men, but she herself descends not : whoso would behold her must climb with long and laborious effort, nay, still linger in the forecourt, till manifold trial have proved him worthy of admission into the interior solemnities.
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Acorns are planted silently by some unnoticed breeze.
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Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
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A sad spectacle. If they be inhabited, what a scope for misery and folly. If they be not inhabited, what a waste of space.
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Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will.
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Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom.
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Have a purpose in life, and having it, throw into your work such strength of mind and muscle as God has given you.
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Might and right do differ frightfully from hour to hour, but then centuries to try it in, they are found to be identical.
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The eye sees what it brings the power to see.
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When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.
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The fine arts once divorcing themselves from truth are quite certain to fall mad, if they do not die.
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