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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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Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do that with all thy might and leave the issues calmly to God.
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Nothing ever happens but once in all this world. What I do now I do once for all. It is over and gone, with all its eternity of solemn meaning.
Thomas Carlyle
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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Men are grown mechanical in head and in the heart, as well as in the hand. They have lost faith in individual endeavour, and in natural force of any kind.
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Success in life, in anything, depends upon the number of persons that one can make himself agreeable to.
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Lord Bacon could as easily have created the planets as he could have written Hamlet.
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Lives the man that can figure a naked Duke of Windlestraw addressing a naked House of Lords?
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Misery which, through long ages, had no spokesman, no helper, will now be its own helper and speak for itself.
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Laws themselves, political Constitutions, are not our Life but only the house wherein our Life is led.
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No man sees far, most see no farther than their noses.
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The Ideal is in thyself, the impediments too is in thyself.
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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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Hardened round us, encasing wholly every notion we form is a wrapping of traditions, hearsay's, and mere words.
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In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom we have to say, Like People like Government.
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The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows. The greatest of faults, I should say is to be conscious of none.
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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.
Thomas Carlyle
Pin your faith to no ones sleeves, haven't you two eyes of your own.
Thomas Carlyle
Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.
Thomas Carlyle
Worship is transcendent wonder.
Thomas Carlyle
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.
Thomas Carlyle
