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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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Thought once awakened does not again slumber unfolds itself into a System of Thought grows, in man after man, generation after generation, - till its full stature is reached, and such System of Thought can grow no farther, but must give place to another.
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The Builder of this Universe was wise, He plann'd all souls, all systems, planets, particles: The Plan He shap'd all Worlds and Æons by, Was-Heavens!-was thy small Nine-and-thirty Articles!
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No age seemed the age of romance to itself.
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Infinite is the help man can yield to man.
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If there be not a religious element in the relations of men, such relations are miserable and doomed to ruin.
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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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I want to meet my God awake.
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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 Christian must be consumed by the conviction of the infinite beauty of holiness and the infinite damnability of sin.
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Necessity dispenseth with decorum.
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To a shower of gold most things are penetrable.
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