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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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Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such it is an accident, not a property of man.
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A good book is the purest essence of a human soul.
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Every man is my superior in that I may learn from him.
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Speech is too often not the art of concealing thought, but of quite stifling and suspending thought, so that there is none to conceal.
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Be not a slave of words.
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Conclusive facts are inseparable from inconclusive except by a head that already understands and knows.
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History is the distillation of rumour.
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He that works and does some Poem, not he that merely says one, is worthy of the name of Poet.
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No man at bottom means injustice it is always for some obscure distorted image of a right that he contends: an obscure image diffracted, exaggerated, in the wonderfulest way by natural dimness and selfishness getting tenfold more diffracted by exasperation of contest, till at length it become all but irrecognis-able.
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A man must indeed be a hero to appear such in the eyes of his valet.
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Not what I have, but what I do is my kingdom.
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Insurrection, never so necessary, is a most sad necessity and governors who wait for that to instruct them are surely getting into the fatalest course.
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Worship of a hero is transcendent admiration of a great man.
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Naps are a way of traveling painlessly through time into the future.
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The public is anold woman.Let her maunderand mumble.
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Happy season of childhood! Kind Nature, that art to all a bountiful mother that visitest the poor man's hut With auroral radiance and for thy nursling hast provided a soft swathing of love and infinite hope wherein he waxes and slumbers, danced round by sweetest dreams!
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Our works are the mirror wherein the spirit first sees its natural lineaments. Hence, too, the folly of that impossible precept, Know theyself till it be translated into this partially possible one, know what thou canst work at.
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A battle is a terrible conjugation of the verb to kill: I kill, thou killest, he kills, we kill, they kill, all kill.
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The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against disbelief
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Let a man try faithfully, manfully to be right he will grow daily more and more right. It is at bottom the condition on which all men have to cultivate themselves.
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