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My books are friends that never fail me.
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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What you see, but can't see over is as good as infinite.
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Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can.
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In a different time, in a different place, it is always some other side of our common human nature that has been developing itself. The actual truth is the sum of all these.
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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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There is often more spiritual force in a proverb than in whole philosophical systems.
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Consider in fact, a body of six hundred and fifty-eight miscellaneous persons, set to consult about business, with twenty-seven millions, mostly fools, assiduously listening to them, and checking and criticising them. Was there ever, since the world began, will there ever be till the world end, any business accomplished in these circumstan
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A Fourth Estate, of Able Editors, springs up.
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I call that [Book of Job], apart from all theories about it, one of the grandest things ever written with pen.
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Thought is the parent of the deed.
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What are your Axioms, and Categories, and Systems, and Aphorisms? Words, words.... Be not the slave of Words.
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Be a pattern to others, and then all will go well for as a whole city is affected by the licentious passions and vices of great men, so it is likewise reformed by their moderation.
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And yet without labour there were no ease, no rest, so much as conceivable.
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To the mean eye all things are trivial, as certainly as to the jaundiced they are yellow.
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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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Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.
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Out of the lowest depths there is a path to the loftiest heights.
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The great silent man! Looking round on the noisy inanity of the world,--words with little meaning, actions with little worth,--one loves to reflect on the great Empire of Silence.
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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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Out of Eternity the new day is born Into Eternity at night will return.
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The aristocracy of feudal parchment has passed away with a mighty rushing, and now, by a natural course, we arrive at aristocracy of the money-bag.
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