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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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Philosopher of Chelsea
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Variety is the condition of harmony.
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Little other than a red tape Talking-machine, and unhappy Bag of Parliamentary Eloquence.
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Do nothing, only keep agitating, debating and things will destroy themselves.
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True friends, like ivy and the wall Both stand together, and together fall.
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The first duty of man is to conquer fear he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.
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A fair day's wage for a fair day's work: it is as just a demand as governed men ever made of governing. It is the everlasting right of man.
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