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Once turn to practice, error and truth will no longer consort together.
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 end of Man is an Action, and not a Thought, though it were the noblest?
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Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do that with all thy might and leave the issues calmly to God.
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A man cannot make a pair of shoes rightly unless he do it in a devout manner.
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With union grounded on falsehood and ordering us to speak and act lies, we will not have anything to do. Peace? A brutal lethargy is peaceable the noisome is peaceable. We hope for a living peace, not a dead one!
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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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A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.
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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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The greatest mistake is to imagine that we never err.
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One monster there is in the world, the idle man.
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All reform except a moral one will prove unavailing.
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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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The sincere alone can recognize sincerity.
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Books are a triviality. Life alone is great.
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