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All work is as seed sown it grows and spreads, and sows itself anew.
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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How indestructibly the good grows, and propagates itself, even among the weedy entanglements of evil.
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Once turn to practice, error and truth will no longer consort together.
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If those gentlemen would let me alone I should be much obliged to them. I would say, as Shakespeare would say... Sweet Friend, for Jesus sake forbear.
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The cut of a garment speaks of intellect and talent and the color of temperament and heart.
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Misery which, through long ages, had no spokesman, no helper, will now be its own helper and speak for itself.
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The English are a dumb people. They can do great acts, but not describe them.
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Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do that with all thy might and leave the issues calmly to God.
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The merit of originality is not novelty it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man whatsoever he believes, he believes it for himself, not for another.
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The end of Man is an Action, and not a Thought, though it were the noblest?
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If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.
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What this country needs is a man who knows God other than by heresay.
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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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Do nothing, only keep agitating, debating and things will destroy themselves.
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Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful yet ever needful and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.
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Nature admits no lie.
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And yet without labour there were no ease, no rest, so much as conceivable.
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Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.
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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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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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