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For man is not the creature and product of Mechanism but, in a far truer sense, its creator and producer.
Thomas Carlyle
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Thomas Carlyle
Age: 85 †
Born: 1795
Born: December 4
Died: 1881
Died: February 5
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Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity speech is shallow as Time.
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Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.
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O Time! Time! how it brings forth and devours! And the roaring flood of existence rushes on forever similar, forever changing!
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