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God Almighty never created a man half as wise as he looks.
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 whole past is the procession of the present.
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A dandy is a clothes-wearing man--a man whose trade, office, and existence consist in the wearing of clothes. Every faculty of his soul, spirit, person and purse is heroically consecrated to this one object--the wearing of clothes, wisely and well so that, as others dress to live, he lives to dress.
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A man must indeed be a hero to appear such in the eyes of his valet.
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A witty statesman said, you might prove anything by figures.
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He who cannot withal keep his mind to himself cannot practice any considerable thing whatsoever.
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Eternity looks grander and kinder if time grow meaner and more hostile.
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Cherish what is dearest while you have it near you, and wait not till it is far away. Blind and deaf that we are oh, think, if thou yet love anybody living, wait not till death sweep down the paltry little dust clouds and dissonances of the moment, and all be made at last so mournfully clear and beautiful, when it is too late.
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The true Sovereign of the world, who moulds the world like soft wax, according to his pleasure, is he who lovingly sees into the world.
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Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
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When we can drain the Ocean into mill-ponds, and bottle up the Force of Gravity, to be sold by retail, in gas jars then may we hope to comprehend the infinitudes of man's soul under formulas of Profit and Loss and rule over this too, as over a patent engine, by checks, and valves, and balances.
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It is not a lucky word, this name impossible no good comes of those who have it so often in their mouths.
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The Ideal is in thyself, the impediments too is in thyself.
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A heavenly awe overshadowed and encompassed, as it still ought, and must, all earthly business whatsoever.
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No violent extreme endures.
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What an enormous magnifier is tradition! How a thing grows in the human memory and in the human imagination, when love, worship, and all that lies in the human heart, is there to encourage it
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The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious.
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Scarcely two hundred years back can Fame recollect articulately at all and there she but maunders and mumbles.
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Without kindness there can be no true joy.
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Every man is my superior in that I may learn from him.
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The beginning of all wisdom is to look fixedly on clothes, or even with armed eyesight, till they become transparent.
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