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All true work is sacred. In all true work, were it but true hand work, there is something of divineness. Labor, wide as the earth, has its summit in Heaven.
Thomas Carlyle
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Thomas Carlyle
Age: 85 †
Born: 1795
Born: December 4
Died: 1881
Died: February 5
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A poor creature who has said or done nothing worth a serious man taking the trouble of remembering.
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The dead are all holy, even they that were base and wicked while alive. Their baseness and wickedness was not they, was but the heavy and unmanageable environment that lay round them.
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The leafy blossoming present time springs from the whole past, remembered and unrememberable.
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There is often more spiritual force in a proverb than in whole philosophical systems.
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Of all your troubles, great and small, the greatest are the ones that don't happen at all.
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