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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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The vulgarity of inanimate things requires time to get accustomed to but living, breathing, bustling, plotting, planning, human vulgarity is a species of moral ipecacuanha, enough to destroy any comfort.
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Whose school-hours are all the days and nights of our existence.
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Work earnestly at anything, you will by degrees learn to work at all things.
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To a shower of gold most things are penetrable.
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Laws, written, if not on stone tables, yet on the azure of infinitude, in the inner heart of God's creation, certain as life, certain as death, are there, and thou shalt not disobey them.
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There is precious instruction to be got by finding we were wrong.
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Affectation is the product of falsehood.
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Democracy is, by the nature of it, a self-canceling business: and gives in the long run a net result of zero.
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The true eye for talent presupposes the true reverence for it.
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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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Only perhaps in the United States, which alone of countries can do without governing,every man being at least able to live, and move off into the wilderness, let Congress jargon as it will,can such a form of so-called Government continue for any length of time to torment men with the semblance, when the indispensable substance is not there.
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By nature man hates change seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.
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Let one who wants to move and convince others, first be convinced and moved themselves. If a person speaks with genuine earnestness the thoughts, the emotion and the actual condition of their own heart, others will listen because we all are knit together by the tie of sympathy.
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It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.
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See deep enough, and you see musically.
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Democracy means despair of finding any heroes to govern you, and contented putting up with the want of them.
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Know what thou canst work at, and work at it like a Hercules.
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I want to meet my God awake.
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Battles, in these ages, are transacted by mechanism with the slightest possible development of human individuality or spontaneity men now even die, and kill one another, in an artificial manner.
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We call it a Society and go about professing openly the totalest separation, isolation. Our life is not a mutual helpfulness but rather, cloaked under due laws-of-war, named fair competition and so forth, it is a mutual hostility.
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