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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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Philosopher of Chelsea
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In every object there is inexhaustible meaning the eye sees in it what the eye brings means of seeing.
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Thought will not work except in silence.
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If there be not a religious element in the relations of men, such relations are miserable and doomed to ruin.
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Music is well said to be the speech of angels in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine. It brings us near to the infinite.
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The vulgarity of inanimate things requires time to get accustomed to but living, breathing, bustling, plotting, planning, human vulgarity is a species of moral ipecacuanha, enough to destroy any comfort.
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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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A sad spectacle. If they be inhabited, what a scope for misery and folly. If they be not inhabited, what a waste of space.
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Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
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My books are friends that never fail me.
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If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated readings deserves to be read at all.
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Out of Eternity the new day is born Into Eternity at night will return.
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Every poet, be his outward lot what it may, finds himself born in the midst of prose h e has to struggle from the littleness and obstruction of an actual world into the freedom and infinitude of an ideal.
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Rest is for the dead.
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Might and right do differ frightfully from hour to hour, but then centuries to try it in, they are found to be identical.
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It is through symbols that man consciously or unconsciously lives, works and has his being.
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No age seemed the age of romance to itself.
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Friendship, in the old heroic sense of that term, no longer exists. It is in reality no longer expected or recognized as a virtue among men.
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After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books.
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Unity, agreement, is always silent or soft-voiced it is only discord that loudly proclaims itself.
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Show me the man you honor I know by that symptom, better than by any other, what kind of man you yourself are. For you show me there what your ideal of manhood is what kind of man you long inexpressibly to be.
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