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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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Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.
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Conclusive facts are inseparable from inconclusive except by a head that already understands and knows.
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The leafy blossoming present time springs from the whole past, remembered and unrememberable.
Thomas Carlyle
Let me have my own way in exactly everything and a sunnier and pleasanter creature does not exist.
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O thou who art able to write a book which once in the two centuries or oftener there is a man gifted to do, envy not him whom they name city-builder, and inexpressibly pity him whom they name conqueror or city-burner.
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Music is well said to be the speech of angels in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine. It brings us near to the infinite.
Thomas Carlyle
The soul gives unity to what it looks at with love.
Thomas Carlyle
A sad spectacle. If they be inhabited, what a scope for misery and folly. If they be not inhabited, what a waste of space.
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Great men are the modelers, patterns, and in a wide sense creators, of whatsoever the general mass of men contrived to do and attain.
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All human souls, never so bedarkened, love light light once kindled spreads till all is luminous.
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Life is a series of lessons that have to be understood.
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Are not our greatest men as good as lost? The men that walk daily among us, warming us, feeding us, walk shrouded in darkness, mere mythic men.
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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.
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Enjoying things which are pleasant that is not the evil it is the reducing of our moral self to slavery by them that is.
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See deep enough, and you see musically.
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History is the essence of innumerable biographies.
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True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.
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As there is no danger of our becoming, any of us, Mahometans (i.e. Muslim), I mean to say all the good of him I justly can.
Thomas Carlyle
It is well said, in every sense, that a man's religion is the chief fact with regard to him.
Thomas Carlyle
A word spoken in season, at the right moment is the mother of ages.
Thomas Carlyle
