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There is often more spiritual force in a proverb than in whole philosophical systems.

Thomas Carlyle

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Thomas Carlyle
Age: 85 †
Born: 1795
Born: December 4
Died: 1881
Died: February 5
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Speech that leads not to action, still more that hinders it, is a nuisance on the earth.
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The latest gospel in this world is, know thy work and do it.
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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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He who cannot withal keep his mind to himself cannot practice any considerable thing whatsoever.
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Nature, after all, is still the grand agent in making poets.
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What, in the devil's name, is the use of respectability, with never so many gigs and silver spoons, if thou inwardly art the pitifulness of all men?
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Freedom is the one purport, wisely aimed at, or unwisely, of all man's struggles, toilings and sufferings, in this earth.
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The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self activity.
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He who talks much about virtue in the abstract, begins to be suspected it is shrewdly guessed that where there is great preaching there will be little almsgiving.
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Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can.
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The eye sees what it brings the power to see.
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Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.
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Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
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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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The highest ensign that men ever met and embraced under, the Cross itself, had no meaning save an accidental extrinsic one.
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Heroes, it would seem, exist always and a certain worship of them.
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Violence does even justice unjustly.
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