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Thomas Carlyle
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Thomas Carlyle
Age: 85 †
Born: 1795
Born: December 4
Died: 1881
Died: February 5
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Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
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I have seen gleams in the face and eyes of the man that have let you look into a higher country.
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A man protesting against error is on the way towards uniting himself with all men that believe in truth.
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A mind that has seen, and suffered, and done, speaks to us of what it has tried and conquered.
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To a shower of gold most things are penetrable.
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There is so much data available to us, but most data won't help us succeed.
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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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Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.
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A man cannot make a pair of shoes rightly unless he do it in a devout manner.
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Wonderful Force of Public Opinion! We must act and walk in all points as it prescribes follow the traffic it bids us, realize the sum of money, the degree of influence it expects of us, or we shall be lightly esteemed certain mouthfuls of articulate wind will be blown at us, and this what mortal courage can front?
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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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Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
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The first duty of man is that of subduing fear.
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The Persians are called the French of the East we will call the Arabs Oriental Italians. A gifted noble people a people of wildstrong feelings, and of iron restraint over these: the characteristic of noblemindedness, of genius.
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Secrecy is the element of all goodness even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
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It is well said, in every sense, that a man's religion is the chief fact with regard to him.
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Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, altogether past calculation its powers of endurance.
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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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It is in general more profitable to reckon up our defeats than to boast of our attainments.
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Before philosophy can teach by Experience, the Philosophy has to be in readiness, the Experience must be gathered and intelligibly recorded.
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