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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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He that can work is born to be king of something.
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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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Caution is the lower story of prudence.
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He who cannot withal keep his mind to himself cannot practice any considerable thing whatsoever.
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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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No age seemed the age of romance to itself.
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Macaulay is well for awhile, but one wouldn't live under Niagara.
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