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It is part of my creed that the only poetry is history, could we tell it right.
Thomas Carlyle
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Thomas Carlyle
Age: 85 †
Born: 1795
Born: December 4
Died: 1881
Died: February 5
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The mystical bond of brotherhood makes all men brothers.
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So much of truth, only under an ancient obsolete vesture, but the spirit of it still true, do I find in the Paganism of old nations. Nature is still divine, the revelation of the workings of God the Hero is still worshipable: this, under poor cramped incipient forms, is what all Pagan religions have struggled, as they could, to set forth.
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It is not honest inquiry that makes anarchy but it is error, insincerity, half belief and untruth that make it.
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Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom.
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Rightly viewed no meanest object is insignificant all objects are as windows through which the philosophic eye looks into infinitude itself.
Thomas Carlyle
There is precious instruction to be got by finding we were wrong.
Thomas Carlyle
One monster there is in the world, the idle man.
Thomas Carlyle
No person is important enough to make me angry.
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Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can.
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Why did not somebody teach me the constellations, and make me at home in the starry heavens, which are always overhead, and which I don't half know to this day?
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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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The Present is the living sum-total of the whole Past.
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The civil authority, or that part of it which remained faithful to their trust and true to the ends of the covenant, did, in answer to their consciences, turn out a tyrant, in a way which the Christians in aftertimes will mention with honor, and all tyrants in the world look at with fear.
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All great peoples are conservative.
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Scarcely two hundred years back can Fame recollect articulately at all and there she but maunders and mumbles.
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Midas-eared Mammonism, double-barrelled Dilettantism, and their thousand adjuncts and corollaries, are not the Law by which God Almighty has appointed this His universe to go.
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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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They only are wise who know that they know nothing.
Thomas Carlyle
It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.
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Statistics, one may hope, will improve gradually, and become good for something. Meanwhile, it is to be feared the crabbed satirist was partly right, as things go: A judicious man, says he, looks at Statistics, not to get knowledge, but to save himself from having ignorance foisted on him.
Thomas Carlyle
