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What are your Axioms, and Categories, and Systems, and Aphorisms? Words, words.... Be not the slave of Words.
Thomas Carlyle
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Thomas Carlyle
Age: 85 †
Born: 1795
Born: December 4
Died: 1881
Died: February 5
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The Builder of this Universe was wise, He plann'd all souls, all systems, planets, particles: The Plan He shap'd all Worlds and Æons by, Was-Heavens!-was thy small Nine-and-thirty Articles!
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A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.
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Secrecy is the element of all goodness even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
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By nature man hates change seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.
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Rich as we are in biography, a well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one and there are certainly many more men whose history deserves to be recorded than persons willing and able to record it.
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I want to meet my God awake.
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It is through symbols that man consciously or unconsciously lives, works and has his being.
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We have not the love of greatness, but the love of the love of greatness.
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If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it.
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It is no very good symptom, either of nations or individuals, that they deal much in vaticination. Happy men are full of the present, for its bounty suffices them and wise men also, for its duties engage them. Our grand business undoubtedly is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what clearly lies at hand.
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Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.
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A man ought to inquire and find out what he really and truly has an appetite for what suits his constitution and that, doctors tell him, is the very thing he ought to have in general. And so with books.
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The graceful minuet-dance of fancy must give place to the toilsome, thorny pilgrimage of understanding. On the transition from the age of romance to that of science.
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To be true is manly, chivalrous, Christian to be false is mean, cowardly, devilish.
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I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
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Democracy means despair of finding any heroes to govern you, and contented putting up with the want of them.
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Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
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The greatest fault is to be conscious of none.
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Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.
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At worst, is not this an unjust world, full of nothing but beasts of prey, four-footed or two-footed?
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