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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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Philosopher of Chelsea
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No man lives without jostling and being jostled in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.
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One monster there is in the world, the idle man.
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The end of Man is an Action, and not a Thought, though it were the noblest?
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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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Great is wisdom infinite is the value of wisdom. It cannot be exaggerated it is the highest achievement of man.
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Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom.
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In books lies the soul of the whole Past Time the articulate audible voice of the Past, when the body and material substance of it has altogether vanished like a dream.
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Out of the lowest depths there is a path to the loftiest heights.
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There is often more spiritual force in a proverb than in whole philosophical systems.
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Time is the silent, never-resting thing ... rolling, rushing on, swift, silent, like an all-embracing oceantide, on which we and all the universe swim.
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Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.
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Violence does even justice unjustly.
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A star is beautiful it affords pleasure, not from what it is to do, or to give, but simply by being what it is. It befits the heavens it has congruity with the mighty space in which it dwells. It has repose no force disturbs its eternal peace. It has freedom no obstruction lies between it and infinity.
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A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.
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Rare benevolence, the minister of God.
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I call that [Book of Job], apart from all theories about it, one of the grandest things ever written with pen.
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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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No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, could ever compel the soul of man to believe or to disbelieve: it is his own indefeasible light, that judgment of his he will reign and believe there by the grace of God alone!
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When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent.
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Man makes circumstances, and spiritually as well as economically, is the artificer of his own fortune.
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