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A man lives by believing something.
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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Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
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Science has done much for us but it is a poor science that would hide from us the great deep sacred infinitude of Nescience, on which all science swims as a mere superficial film.
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Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.
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Nature admits no lie.
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When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent.
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Out of the lowest depths there is a path to the loftiest heights.
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In our wide world there is but one altogether fatal personage, the dunce,--he that speaks irrationally, that sees not, and yet thinks he sees.
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Oblivion is the dark page, whereon Memory writes her light-beam characters, and makes them legible were it all light, nothing could be read there, any more than if it were all darkness.
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The latest gospel in this world is, know thy work and do it.
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Lord Bacon could as easily have created the planets as he could have written Hamlet.
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History is the new poetry.
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All reform except a moral one will prove unavailing.
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A fair day's wages for a fair day's work.
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Violence does even justice unjustly.
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The true eye for talent presupposes the true reverence for it.
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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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Great is wisdom infinite is the value of wisdom. It cannot be exaggerated it is the highest achievement of man.
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Of all the paths a man could strike into, there is, at any given moment, a best path .. A thing which, here and now, it were of all things wisest for him to do .. To find this path, and walk in it, is the one thing needful for him.
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Why did not somebody teach me the constellations, and make me at home in the starry heavens, which are always overhead, and which I don't half know to this day?
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A noble book! all men's book!
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