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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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All men, if they work not as in the great taskmaster's eye, will work wrong, and work unhappily for themselves and for you.
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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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Wealth of a man is the number of things which he loves and blesses which he is loved and blessed by.
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A Fourth Estate, of Able Editors, springs up.
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Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong.
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Little other than a red tape Talking-machine, and unhappy Bag of Parliamentary Eloquence.
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A vein of poetry exists in the hearts of all men.
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A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.
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In our wide world there is but one altogether fatal personage, the dunce,--he that speaks irrationally, that sees not, and yet thinks he sees.
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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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Skepticism . . . is not intellectual only it is moral also, a chronic atrophy and disease of the whole soul.
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Love is ever the beginning of knowledge as fire is of light.
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Speech is too often not the art of concealing thought, but of quite stifling and suspending thought, so that there is none to conceal.
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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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Necessity dispenseth with decorum.
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Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.
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Philosophy dwells aloft in the Temple of Science, the divinity of its inmost shrine her dictates descend among men, but she herself descends not : whoso would behold her must climb with long and laborious effort, nay, still linger in the forecourt, till manifold trial have proved him worthy of admission into the interior solemnities.
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