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The greatest fault is to be conscious of none.
Thomas Carlyle
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Thomas Carlyle
Age: 85 †
Born: 1795
Born: December 4
Died: 1881
Died: February 5
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Variety is the condition of harmony.
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Professors of the Dismal Science, I perceive the length of your tether is now pretty well run and I must request you to talk a little lower in the future.
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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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Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.
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After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books.
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Statistics, one may hope, will improve gradually, and become good for something. Meanwhile, it is to be feared the crabbed satirist was partly right, as things go: A judicious man, says he, looks at Statistics, not to get knowledge, but to save himself from having ignorance foisted on him.
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The great law of culture is, Let each become all that he was created capable of being expand, if possible, to his full growth resisting all impediments, casting off all foreign, especially all noxious adhesions, and show himself at length in his own shape and stature be these what they may.
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To the vulgar eye, few things are wonderful that are not distant
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The Present is the living sum-total of the whole Past.
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There is a majesty and mystery in nature, take her as you will. The essence of poetry comes breathing to a mind that feels from every province of her empire.
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Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.
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We have not read an author till we have seen his object, whatever it may be, as he saw it.
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No age seemed the age of romance to itself.
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Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May but at length the season of summer does come.
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The purpose of man is in action not thought.
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I want to meet my God awake.
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Biography is the only true history.
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Blessed is he who has found his work let him ask no other blessedness. He has a work, a Life-purpose... Get your happiness out of your work or you will never know what real happiness is... Even in the meanest sorts of Labour, the whole soul of a man is composed into a kind of real harmony the instant he sets himself to work!
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