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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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There is something in man which your science cannot satisfy.
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Whose school-hours are all the days and nights of our existence.
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In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom we have to say, Like People like Government.
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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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Of our thinking it is but the upper surface that we shape into articulate thought underneath the region of argument and conscious discourse lies the region of meditation.
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The first duty of man is that of subduing fear.
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Secrecy is the element of all goodness even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
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A stammering man is never a worthless one. Physiology can tell you why. It is an excess of sensibility to the presence of his fellow creature, that makes him stammer.
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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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History is the essence of innumerable biographies.
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Rich as we are in biography, a well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one and there are certainly many more men whose history deserves to be recorded than persons willing and able to record it.
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If a book comes from the heart, it will contrive to reach other hearts all art and author-craft are of small amount to that.
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There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.
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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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History is philosophy teaching by experience.
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The goal of yesterday will be our starting-point to-morrow.
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If I say that Shakespeare is the greatest of intellects, I have said all concerning him. But there is more in Shakespeare's intellect than we have yet seen. It is what I call an unconscious intellect there is more virtue in it that he himself is aware of.
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The sincere alone can recognize sincerity.
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A pygmy standing on the outward crust of this small planet, his far-reaching spirit stretches outward to the infinite, and there alone finds rest.
Thomas Carlyle
No man lives without jostling and being jostled in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.
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