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To the vulgar eye, few things are wonderful that are not distant
Thomas Carlyle
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Thomas Carlyle
Age: 85 †
Born: 1795
Born: December 4
Died: 1881
Died: February 5
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Hero-worship exists, has existed, and will forever exist, universally, among mankind.
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All true work is sacred. In all true work, were it but true hand work, there is something of divineness. Labor, wide as the earth, has its summit in Heaven.
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Lord Bacon could as easily have created the planets as he could have written Hamlet.
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Cease to brag to me of America, and its model institutions and constitutions. America, too, will have to strain its energies, crack its sinews, and all but break its heart, as the rest of us have had to do, in thousand-fold wrestle with the Pythons, and mud-demons, before it can become a babitation for the gods.
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Nothing that was worthy in the past departs no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.
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The outer passes away the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
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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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Rightly viewed no meanest object is insignificant all objects are as windows through which the philosophic eye looks into infinitude itself.
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The best lesson which we get from the tragedy of Karbala is that Husain and his companions were rigid believers in God. They illustrated that the numerical superiority does not count when it comes to the truth and the falsehood. The victory of Husain, despite his minority, marvels me!
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History is the essence of innumerable biographies.
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The archenemy is the arch stupid!
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Blessed be the God's voice for it is true, and falsehoods have to cease before it!
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