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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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To say that we have a clear conscience is to utter a solecism had we never sinned we should have had no conscience. Were defeat unknown, neither would victory be celebrated by songs of triumph.
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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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Acorns are planted silently by some unnoticed breeze.
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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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Might and right do differ frightfully from hour to hour, but then centuries to try it in, they are found to be identical.
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Experience is the best of school masters, only the school fees are heavy.
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A man must indeed be a hero to appear such in the eyes of his valet.
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The aristocracy of feudal parchment has passed away with a mighty rushing, and now, by a natural course, we arrive at aristocracy of the money-bag.
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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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Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.
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What unknown seas of feeling lie in man, and will from time to time break through!
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No nobler feeling than this, of admiration for one higher than himself, dwells in the breast of man. It is to this hour, and at all hours, the vivifying influence in man's life.
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There is but one temple in this Universe: The Body. We speak to God whenever we lay our hands upon it.
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Nothing that was worthy in the past departs no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.
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I want to meet my God awake.
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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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