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Once the mind has been expanded by a big idea, it will never go back to its original state.

Thomas Carlyle

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Thomas Carlyle
Age: 85 †
Born: 1795
Born: December 4
Died: 1881
Died: February 5
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Once turn to practice, error and truth will no longer consort together.
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This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.
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A mind that has seen, and suffered, and done, speaks to us of what it has tried and conquered.
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