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Experience is the best of school masters, only the school fees are heavy.
Thomas Carlyle
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Thomas Carlyle
Age: 85 †
Born: 1795
Born: December 4
Died: 1881
Died: February 5
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Force, force, everywhere force we ourselves a mysterious force in the centre of that. There is not a leaf rotting on the highway but has Force in it: how else could it rot? [As used in his time, by the word force, Carlyle means energy.]
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Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.
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The Ideal is in thyself, the impediments too is in thyself.
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