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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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Philosopher of Chelsea
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All evil is like a nightmare the instant you stir under it, the evil is gone.
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We do everything by custom, even believe by it our very axioms, let us boast of free-thinking as we may, are oftenest simply such beliefs as we have never heard questioned.
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Intellect is the soul of man, the only immortal part of him.
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A man cannot make a pair of shoes rightly unless he do it in a devout manner.
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Of all the paths a man could strike into, there is, at any given moment, a best path .. A thing which, here and now, it were of all things wisest for him to do .. To find this path, and walk in it, is the one thing needful for him.
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All history . . . is an inarticulate Bible.
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Habit is the deepest law of human nature
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Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
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Shakespeare says, we are creatures that look before and after the more surprising that we do not look around a little, and see what is passing under our very eyes.
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At worst, is not this an unjust world, full of nothing but beasts of prey, four-footed or two-footed?
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It is meritorious to insist on forms religion and all else naturally clothes itself in forms. Everywhere the formed world is the only habitable one.
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No violent extreme endures.
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One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO.
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It is in general more profitable to reckon up our defeats than to boast of our attainments.
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Every poet, be his outward lot what it may, finds himself born in the midst of prose h e has to struggle from the littleness and obstruction of an actual world into the freedom and infinitude of an ideal.
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In our wide world there is but one altogether fatal personage, the dunce,--he that speaks irrationally, that sees not, and yet thinks he sees.
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The public is anold woman.Let her maunderand mumble.
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No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
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Every human being has a right to hear what other wise human beings have spoken to him. It is one of the Rights of Men a very cruel injustice if you deny it to a man!
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A false man found a religion? Why, a false man cannot build a brick house!
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