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The coldest word was once a glowing new metaphor.
Thomas Carlyle
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Thomas Carlyle
Age: 85 †
Born: 1795
Born: December 4
Died: 1881
Died: February 5
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The first sin in our universe was Lucifer's self conceit.
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The age of miracles is forever here.
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The Persians are called the French of the East we will call the Arabs Oriental Italians. A gifted noble people a people of wildstrong feelings, and of iron restraint over these: the characteristic of noblemindedness, of genius.
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Unity, agreement, is always silent or soft-voiced it is only discord that loudly proclaims itself.
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Pin your faith to no ones sleeves, haven't you two eyes of your own.
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History is the new poetry.
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Whose school-hours are all the days and nights of our existence.
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There can be no acting or doing of any kind till it be recognized that there is a thing to be done the thing once recognized, doing in a thousand shapes becomes possible.
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A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.
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Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.
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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.
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Authors are the vanguard in the march of mind, the intellectual backwoodsmen, reclaiming from the idle wilderness new territories for the thought and activity of their happier brethren.
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A thought once awakened does not again slumber.
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No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, could ever compel the soul of man to believe or to disbelieve: it is his own indefeasible light, that judgment of his he will reign and believe there by the grace of God alone!
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Also, what mountains of dead ashes, wreck and burnt bones, does assiduous pedantry dig up from the past time and name it History.
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Of a truth, men are mystically united: a mystic bond of brotherhood makes all men one.
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Perfect ignorance is quiet, perfect knowledge is quiet not so the transition from the former to the latter.
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He is wise who can instruct us and assist us in the business of virtuous living.
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It is not a lucky word, this name impossible no good comes of those who have it so often in their mouths.
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Obedience is our universal duty and destiny wherein whoso will not bend must break too early and too thoroughly we cannot be trained to know that would, in this world of ours, is a mere zero to should, and for most part as the smallest of fractions even to shall.
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