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No good book, or good thing of any sort, shows its best face at first.
Thomas Carlyle
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Thomas Carlyle
Age: 85 †
Born: 1795
Born: December 4
Died: 1881
Died: February 5
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Piety does not mean that a man should make a sour face about things, and refuse to enjoy in moderation what his Maker has given.
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The Builder of this Universe was wise, He plann'd all souls, all systems, planets, particles: The Plan He shap'd all Worlds and Æons by, Was-Heavens!-was thy small Nine-and-thirty Articles!
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Laws, written, if not on stone tables, yet on the azure of infinitude, in the inner heart of God's creation, certain as life, certain as death, are there, and thou shalt not disobey them.
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In this world there is one godlike thing, the essence of all that was or ever will be of godlike in this world: the veneration done to Human Worth by the hearts of men.
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Lord Bacon could as easily have created the planets as he could have written Hamlet.
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Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than gracefully insists on its own rights.
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What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
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Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.
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Democracy means despair of finding any heroes to govern you, and contented putting up with the want of them.
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The beginning of all wisdom is to look fixedly on clothes, or even with armed eyesight, till they become transparent.
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To the wisest man, wide as is his vision. Nature remains of quite infinite depth, of quite infinite expansion and all experience thereof limits itself to some few computed centuries and measured square miles.
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Life is a series of lessons that have to be understood.
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There must be a new world if there is to be any world at all!... These days of universal death must be days of universal new birth, if the ruin is not to be total and final! It is Time to make the dullest man consider and ask himself, Whence he came? Whither he is bound?
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Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with.
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Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such: it is an accident, not a property, of a man like light, it can give little or nothing, but at most may show what is given.
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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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Woe to him, . . . who has no court of appeal against the world's judgment.
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The aristocracy of feudal parchment has passed away with a mighty rushing, and now, by a natural course, we arrive at aristocracy of the money-bag.
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Have not I myself known five hundred living soldiers sabred into crows' meat for a piece of glazed cotton, which they call their flag which had you sold it at any market-cross, would not have brought above three groschen?
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It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.
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