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Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom.

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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Let me have my own way in exactly everything and a sunnier and pleasanter creature does not exist.
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To be true is manly, chivalrous, Christian to be false is mean, cowardly, devilish.
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A man--be the heavens ever praised!--is sufficient for himself.
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He who talks much about virtue in the abstract, begins to be suspected it is shrewdly guessed that where there is great preaching there will be little almsgiving.
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The public is anold woman.Let her maunderand mumble.
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An everlasting lodestar, that beams the brighter in the heavens the darker here on earth grows the night.
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Books are a triviality. Life alone is great.
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In the poorest cottage are Books: is one Book, wherein for several thousands of years the spirit of man has found light, and nourishment, and an interpreting response to whatever is Deepest in him.
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No violent extreme endures.
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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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Nature, after all, is still the grand agent in making poets.
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