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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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Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, altogether past calculation its powers of endurance.
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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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The outer passes away the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
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The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.
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Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
Thomas Carlyle
Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope this world of his is emphatically the place of hope.
Thomas Carlyle
Language is called the garment of thought: however, it should rather be, language is the flesh-garment, the body, of thought.
Thomas Carlyle
Misery which, through long ages, had no spokesman, no helper, will now be its own helper and speak for itself.
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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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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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There is something in man which your science cannot satisfy.
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I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
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Unity, agreement, is always silent or soft-voiced it is only discord that loudly proclaims itself.
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Blessed is he who has found his work let him ask no other blessedness.
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I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.
Thomas Carlyle
Experience is the best of school masters, only the school fees are heavy.
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Pain was not given thee merely to be miserable under learn from it, turn it to account.
Thomas Carlyle
Reform, like charity, must begin at home.
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Our grand business undoubtedly is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
Thomas Carlyle
How great a Possibility, how small a realized Result.
Thomas Carlyle
