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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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If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.
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The times are very bad. Very well, you are there to make them better.
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Superstition! that horrid incubus which dwelt in darkness, shunning the light, with all its racks, and poison chalices, and foul sleeping draughts, is passing away without return. Religion cannot pass away. The burning of a little straw may hide the stars of the sky but the stars are there and will reappear.
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Ill-health, of body or of mind, is defeat. Health alone is victory. Let all men, if they can manage it, contrive to be healthy!
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Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.
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Caution is the lower story of prudence.
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Authors are the vanguard in the march of mind, the intellectual backwoodsmen, reclaiming from the idle wilderness new territories for the thought and activity of their happier brethren.
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The cut of a garment speaks of intellect and talent and the color of temperament and heart.
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Time is the silent, never-resting thing ... rolling, rushing on, swift, silent, like an all-embracing oceantide, on which we and all the universe swim.
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I have seen gleams in the face and eyes of the man that have let you look into a higher country.
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All human souls, never so bedarkened, love light light once kindled spreads till all is luminous.
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There is a perennial nobleness, and even sacredness, in work. Were he never so benighted, forgetful of his high calling, there is always hope in a man that actually and earnestly works: in idleness alone there is perpetual despair.
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Democracy will itself accomplish the salutary universal change from delusive to real, and make a new blessed world of us by and by.
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A pygmy standing on the outward crust of this small planet, his far-reaching spirit stretches outward to the infinite, and there alone finds rest.
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There is often more spiritual force in a proverb than in whole philosophical systems.
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