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Why did not somebody teach me the constellations, and make me at home in the starry heavens, which are always overhead, and which I don't half know to this day?
Thomas Carlyle
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Thomas Carlyle
Age: 85 †
Born: 1795
Born: December 4
Died: 1881
Died: February 5
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He that works and does some Poem, not he that merely says one, is worthy of the name of Poet.
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The vulgarity of inanimate things requires time to get accustomed to but living, breathing, bustling, plotting, planning, human vulgarity is a species of moral ipecacuanha, enough to destroy any comfort.
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Macaulay is well for awhile, but one wouldn't live under Niagara.
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A force as of madness in the hands of reason has done all that was ever done in the world.
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In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom we have to say, Like People like Government.
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Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do that with all thy might and leave the issues calmly to God.
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Hero-worship exists, has existed, and will forever exist, universally, among mankind.
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Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.
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In idleness there is a perpetual despair.
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Love is the only game that is not called on account of darkness.
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Lord Bacon could as easily have created the planets as he could have written Hamlet.
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One monster there is in the world, the idle man.
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The archenemy is the arch stupid!
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Every noble work is at first impossible.
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After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books.
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